Indigenous cultures across the planet have been warning for eons that American “civilization” (entertainment-technology complex) undermines us all by devoting so much of itself to pandering to teenage boys’ worst impulses in such an overwhelming way.
Don’t believe it? Check out In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations by Jerry Mander.
Or, watch this one-hour documentary about Ladakh. See what happens when the American entertainment-technology complex enters a stable, peaceful culture: