When I grew up in the late 60's and 70's, I recall when the media was not so centralized, they even had a televised high school quiz show, so people felt that they really had a place in society . . . . Nowadays, everything is so centralized and up-scaled that it is easy for someone to feel completely insignificant in the big picture . . . . This is one of the results of capitalism, the changing of many small businesses into huge monolithic corporations, the banks, the media, and forming an elite small group of far-to-wealthy individuals who have to much power. When you start to take away the natural threads that tie society together, you start to see bad things happening. Many governments are part of the problem too, because they demonize other societies to draw attention away from their own shortcomings, spread fear, and use fear as a substitute glue to hold together these weak-knit societies, and keep them from falling apart or turning against their government.