I personally think one major issue in the present age is that a lot of people have been sold dreams on a flat screen, dreams that are worth nothing in the reality.
Our generation needs to wake up and understand that TV is not real life and the assumed sense of freedom and security that majority of humans feel after being policed by other humans is only there for being sake.
A problem with that is that our brains interpret the TV as actual interactions with real people. It takes someone who's kinda broken, socially, as I am, to be able to not be hypnotized into cultural affinity with fictional persons and culture on TV programs.
Only some people are even capable of that. You seem to be one.
Sorry about your luck. ;)