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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV6CdgbfHAs&t=615s How they have manipulated us! Spread this.
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Excellent video - thank you for linking the key part.
It’s as though I’ve known on some level that “something isn’t right here” all my life and finally people are saying what “something” is.

WHen I was in first grade, I learned that getting to know other children started by asking them what they liked to do. It was how we introduced ourselves. Drawing, board games etc. Seemed like most kids had separate primary interests and secondary interests might be shared with few others in my class. So playing together meant compromises with time spent focusing on one child’s favorite past times and then switching to focus on another child’s favorites.

But years later I noticed that all children “had” to have the same toy and it had to be their primary occupation. Parents and family members battled “door buster” crowds competing for 10 available of that toy to make sure their child “got theirs” for Christmas. I was stunned - how could EVERY child suddenly take an obsessive interest in spending the majority of their play time with the same toy?

Teddy Ruxpin (talking toy bear) became an obsession, and children were trying to bring theirs to school, but many found the animatronic bear too heavy to carry. Someone made and succeeded in marketing a toy too heavy for a child to carry? And it was many times more costly than the average for toys sold over prior years of Christmas sales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Ruxpin

Cabbage Patch Kids (dolls) also spent time as the national toy assignment for children, and again parents seemed likewise obsessed with it, if only for the purpose of locating and buying it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_Patch_Kids

This homogenization was everywhere. Christmas movies drifted away from being special family moments to focus on portrayals of combative, distorted individuals and their strange manufactured crises. And

A dinner guest on Christmas Eve, I distressed my hostess by leaving for my 2 hour drive home at 10 pm rather than staying to watch a movie titled, “Little Miss Sunshine.” I had already learned to “decode” the promotional blurbs for movies and realized they inevitably portrayed families as toxic at best, so the promo text, “A dysfunctional family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross country trip in their VW bus,” seemed to be a red flag. Later my hostess reported being horribly disappointed with this “insipid, depressing” holiday video. And did we really need a children’s “Christmas” movie titled, “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” in which the hero and heroine are corpses?

I realize some may have genuine reasons to enjoy these movies - I’m just describing the perception I got of a being inside a “show within a show.” A 360 degree “fun house” of mechanized purchasing and viewing habits. Maybe they were using toy sales to learn how to control us. As you can see, your linked video really struck a chord with me.

Thank you for the link. :)