Excellent description of what The media TODAY does to everyone. A method to entice controllable humans into things like consumerism, etc so that the society runs according to a model that favors a super elite..yes... Artificial Intelligence may OVER the next 50 years be self-aware creating a lethal threat to humanity itself but in the mean time used to strengthen the methods used to manipulate and control society for the same goals: to favor the objectives of a super elite