The System is designed to make more dependents, socially, economically, mentally. By doing this the owners of the system, get to enforce more regulation & control and profit while doing it.
The Corporate Oligarchy is running the show and is now Global. Thus we always go back to the CFR, Bankers, and Billionaires with their fake philanthropy - manipulating all things for their profiteering in profits and control.
Short Attention-Spans interrupt hard work and long-term goals. Cell phones, commercials, sometimes music, contribute to this, and disrupt the natural system. No evidence here, going off gut - though the dopamine response and addictiveness in mobile phones is likely demonstrable.
Cults are similar. They disrupt individuality, questioning, and possibilities. One size fits all. if that's the case, good by meritocracy.
Young men need hardworking, honest role models. nothing more.