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If you want to dig in really deep, Horkheimer and Adorno wrote about the “Culture Industry” in the mid-20th century and how even outside of working hours, we are still forced to perform a sort of labor in the consumption of media through our leisure time, movies, tv, music, etc. It’s not so much manipulation of the obvious media like news and such, but a far more subtle mechanism that tells you not only what to desire, but how to desire. The whole thing may be more complicated than you want, and this was a very reductive summary, but I find it to be prescient even 75ish years later.
I sincerely mean no sarcasm in this but that has got to be the best answer yet. Thank you very much and for typing it out.
I did find this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry
But if you have another recommendation I’m interested too.
This isn’t bad. It has some counterpoints as well. The trouble with the concept is that the original material is a philosophical product, and most material online is behind academic paywalls or just some dude’s blog. Hope this is useful!
Thank you, I appreciate that. Sci-hub often has those papers available that are made hard to access by academia.