One of the greatest misfortunes to befall what we term "the West" was the rise to dominance of the mythologies arising from the Israelite cult of the mashup Yahweh/El god. These marauding illiterate goat-herders and destroyers of other people's cities were incredibly neurotic and sexually stunted; their cult mythology necessarily reflected this and in consequence the three monotheistic religions of today, regardless of their sub-cult minimal differences in dogma, are inherently neurotic and sexually stunted. The USA, being a nation of immigrants of low social status, reflects the tendency of peasants and other uneducated people to cling to the very worst aspects of these mythologies. Although scientific empiricism and the Catholic Church's loss of total power meant that north-western European nations were able to move toward more civilized values, most of the rest of the world is still trapped in very primitive modalities. Mass entertainments naturally reflect the prevailing attitudes because their purpose is to make money, and ordinary people pay to see things that won't disturb them. So entertainment is rarely a means of positive social change.