>>213869635there are implicit society-wide cultural rules. Those rules are enforced by people with power and money. Those rules result in social/political outcomes. When those rules change, it's likely that the people with power and money decided to change them - powerless people can't change the rules. They likely changed them in order to achieve new social/political outcomes.
If this wasn't true, then the media of every institution, every company would be completely unique in its messaging and values - I'm thinking of the political messages in video games in the 80s-90s, for example. Instead, there's a striking unanimity across the board and they seem to act in synchronicity
Does the media in North Korea make content with social and political objectives in mind? Would it be a controversial position if I said that it does? Then why is it so controversial to say the same thing happens in the West when our system is just as centralized? Sure, it's all done in boardrooms but it's the same thing.