Living in a society where neighbors and friends trick and outsmart you or labor in advance to create illusions or exploit traditions and expectations. Terrorism cultures where people know you will be attending Church on Sunday or Mosque on Friday or a music concert and set bombs or gun attacks. Examples: Manchester, Moscow, Orlando, Paris.
Information manipulation or using doctorates of psychology like Dr. Abraham Brill in New York City to manipulate consumers or others into self-harm for profit or other motivation.
September 9, 2014 The Atlantic published on the World Wide Web an article titled "Russia and the Menace of Unreality". I did not discover this article or the author until late year 2015.
The television show "The Apprentice" failed in Russia. A television producer hired to expand unreality shows, politics is scripted reality show.
Quran / Torah / Bible, the conflicts over science fiction storytelling. Appealing to authority voices in the sky, outer space aliens, who created Earth.
A powerful male role model, a Father in Heaven super powerful figure beyond your family father or even USA Founding Fathers.
"Old World Order"
Mecca and Quran is the newest of the Torah / Bible / Quran chain, stories from the year 635. To the USA Founding Fathers in year 1776, this was the "Old World Order" of the Mosque / Mecca/ Church / Jesus storytelling.
Removing of supernatural space alien elements, the magical science fiction aspects. Where the King James Bible of England retained the unreality elements.
"I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."
Weizenbaum, Joseph (1976). Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation. W. H. Freeman. page 7.
ELIZA year 1966, it took a decade until 1976 to realize and articulate what had been witnessed.
Infomercial news like Fox News network, Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" news, "The Daily Show" (Daily News) that is news that booby-traps people into mockery of serious misunderstandings. Neil Postman's 1985 social theory about humor and entertainment degrading understanding to a point of cultural death and human death by systemic misunderstandings.
Fox News entertainment network emphasizes that other news networks are incorrect. A constant emphasis on brand and source loyalty, not loyalty to truth and factuality, but to the brand of the news. Brand loyalty to consumer brands like automobiles, sports team brand loyalty, religion storytelling fiction loyalty, etc.
People unable to distinguish fiction from nonfiction, infomercial content / televangelism content of Rupert Murdoch from factual sincere information and nonfiction.
In USA, what is wrong with Fox News?
Popularity. It has a huge influence that other information systems and news networks have to respond and adopt to. Ratings and popularity of fiction in almost any media exceeds nonfiction.
Fox News creates the fiction narrative of wealth televangelism. That worship of the rich and asset holders in society will yield trickle-down benefits. That people with money and power are to be admired, respected, and given special treatment and legal system advantages. Especially for rural Americans without much money, it informs poor people that trite people are their saviors and need their support and donations.
Newsmax is a second-source of much of these same wealth televangelism values. Essentially Fox News and Newsmax networks promote the idea of "Stand Up For the Big Guy", that people capable of amassing wealth / land / assets are the saviors of the world. A religion style of "Stand Up For Allah", "Stand up for Jesus" because God needs your support. This is a proven Levant-based fiction storytelling pattern going back thousands and thousands of years, that powerful people are creators of the Earth's goods and services and tribute and prayers should be given toward the top / sky / heavens where these powerful people live outside normal society. The fiction story Hunger Games book and Film also depict the kind of wealth televangelism that Newsmax and Fox News cultivate in the rural poverty areas of the audience. The Levant idea that there is a "heaven" where the God and those who pass "Judgment Day" are handing down messages to the poor and sick of the world to "save their souls" with prayers and monuments (Mosque, Church, Synagogue, Scientology office / location). These news network values that it is important to listen and follow the leadership of such "God" figures / status symbols / status brands / status logos. Anti-democracy, as the ideas and words of "Gods" of wealth and assets are to be treated above ideas from poor people or nonfiction / factual reality. Mythological living society. Anti-science, pro-fiction.