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You're comparing apples to oranges. Even taking flashy marketing into account, none of those past phenomena were tailor-made to influence large swathes of society or perpetuate (and even *reward*) the spread of harmful misinformation.
Put simply; Rock and roll, video games, D&D, and controversial books largely don't exist explicitly (or even implicitly) to make the general population dumber.
There's nothing here!