You have got to be kidding? Those BP adds have a bunch of morons on the street talking about what the next generation of energy needs to be? I don't know what your business is, but mine is energy. Why don't they do moron on the street ads for how to do brain surgery?
Hilaire Belloc, incidentally, foresaw this very clearly in his book The Servile State in 1912 – before teenagers or record collections had been invented. Pardon my enthusiasm, but HUZZAH!
He knows Belloc!
If you add Belloc and Chesterton to Krauthammer et al., then you're getting somewhere.
Try reading The Servile State--it predicted Socialism and the Welfare State as the inevitable outcome of the conflict of Communism and Capitalism--not only before the Russian Revolution in 1917, but before World War ONE !
Cheers!