PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING!
Predictive programming is a recurring element across many conspiracy theories. The claim is that when conspirators plan a false flag operation, they hide references to it in the popular media before the atrocity takes place; when the event occurs, the public has softened up, and therefore passively accepts it rather than offering resistance or opposition.
They seem to have softened us to the point we are nothing more than marshmallows melting. Puffy, with no substance.
This would be a weak example.
As far as this, there are all sorts of paranoid schizophrenic ideas out there like this.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/21-times-the-simpsons-bizarrely-predicted-the-future#.qhZ898Gmm
http://mashable.com/2014/03/08/simpsons-predicted-technology/#sX5Sb1.FDPq5