And we humans also have evolved the capacity to undermine democracy by attacking children at a very young age with the addiction of pop culture and pitting people against each other with made up dramas. This is possible when power structures consolidate into strong economic entities.

Why has that been so dominant in the US and not in Europe? The stock market’s dominance? (Hiding responsibility). Wild imagination caused by a new frontier, culminating in creative advertising and fables of the worship of capitalism? New forms/variations of religion dominated by pop culture and new fables instead of old wisdom? Other?