In many cases id say the grindwheel of the mind. Inefficient and has the sole purpose of inflicting suffering. Perhaps not by 'design' but certainly through effect.

Muni style. People crapping all over it from time to time.

Well what we really ended up with is TV.

“Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television.” - Andy Warhol

Life is a quote or song cue.

This sounds a bit like they're suffering from derealization, honestly.

the internet use to be a series of tubes, now it is a series of buckets.

We had locomotives before bicycles, too. I think the industry can still get there.

In true South Park style.

Mr Garrison would be proud.