[TheOtherHobbes]

Humans are monkey-see monkey-do. We all believe we're rational independent actors but we really aren't.

That's the whole point of the ad industry.

Media are experienced as authoritative and high status. If they normalise behaviours and beliefs at least some humans will copy them unthinkingly.

There aren't any moral limits to this. If media normalise mass murder, you get mass murder.

Some people are more resistant than others, but everyone has weak spots.