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Ah well, I have no delusions there about it being real life Mrs. B, but I have been observing a trend for several decades of (perhaps many decades) of the media shaping societal values.
An excellent example is the US Virgin Islands. Before Cable TV virtually crime free, you would leave your key in the car as it wouldn't drive itself off the island now would it? Leave the house door open all day while away at work so the animals could play in and out.
Flash forward five years after Cable TV became island-wide with all the stateside programming. Virtually every home had bars on all windows and doors, murder rates were higher than Washington, DC (death capital of the '80s), car theft became sport, and Marion Barry dealt cocaine with the islands' top elected officials right out of Government House.
Remember the book by Marshall Macluhan (sp?) "THe Medium is the Massage?" I need to reread it... he discussed all this stuff back in the '60s.
Peace...Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
I feel that has directly to do with "urban" culture and its popularity with young people
It has replaced traditional culture for kids who cant relate to their own, so they look up to womanizers and people who are solely interested in money and vanity