If they can sell a poop stain hung up in an art museum--and they can--they can sell a story with digression. People in power make these rules to stop people from thinking. It's like a chain, where influencers come up with some shifty idea, and then indoctrinate their followers, until it spreads like a virus. And most of the 21st century's main concepts and ideas are just that, that's why there's so much violence right now.