Infantilizing mainstream culture makes people easier to control. And as long as the world can support such an ideological bubble, it's often easier in the short term for most people to act like children, instead of having to think and work.

But eventually this laziness and lack of connection with reality, ends up causing resource shortages. And then once your bubble is popped, but you never learned how to grow up, then you're really in trouble. That's the position a good portion of America finds itself in, and for many there are no more debts and loans they can take out to keep the bubble afloat.