> I think it's fascinating to think that our entire culture could just be made up by a bunch of mischievous billionaires fucking with us.

Not "could" but "is".

That's how media works, if all media agree to say something wrong during some period of time, that will become true. (Example : Aztrazeneca vaccines, masks, ...). And most media belongs to billionaires. The only thing is that they don't belong to the same billionaires and thus don't most of the time push in the same direction which creates some diversity

I'm not saying this is the case here, but media and propaganda are very close things