Agreed, it's just part of the mass cultural breaking and it's intentional. They want people focused on nonsense so they can't contemplate any real problems. It's a convenient divide-and-conquer issue that pushes a lot of people's buttons and grabs people's attention so they don't have time and attention to spare on anything truly meaningful.

All they have to do is own the 6 major media companies to control the narrative for the overwhelming majority.