Loss of faith in social institutions:
According to a BBC survey, 34% of young people in the UK believe that
pop stars don't sing on their own records. Remember the uproar when
Milli Vanilli were exposed as a fake? Well, nowadays it looks like pop stars
are expected to be fake, and nobody expects the pretty boys and girls
strutting their stuff in the video to be real musical artists any more than
they expect pro wrestlers to be real competition athletes. Yes, it's all fake;
yes, everyone's cool with that.