There was a great deal of material in the video loop, enough for several of these responses. What I found most interesting was how glitzy many of the clips seemed to be. "The ADS Epidemic," for instance, was essentially several minutes of repeating the same message over and over again: ignore the prudes and do what you want. While this is certainly a worthwhile message, I couldn't help but find it ironic that something that was intended to encourage people to think for themselves was itself the intellectual equivalent of packaged baby food. This sort of trend towards predigested ideas in small portions certainly isn't unique to that clip. I couldn't help but be reminded of the "DARE to say no to drugs" program currently in use in public schools. Recently, I've seen studies that show that its method of stating all drugs are equally terrible actually has the opposite effect than intended: once kids find out that not all drugs will instantly rot your brain, they assume that therefore, no drugs will.
The other effect of reducing ideas to bite-sized thoughts is to separate them from the thinker. No longer do you even have to bite them off; we'll happily feed the ideas right to you. This automatically raises a barrier between the person and these ideas. The person no longer has to make an effort to find the ideas and so they have no connection with them. This, again, was reminiscent of something from the film. The body-piercing guy (for lack of a better name) said that it was odd to see Americans vicariously enjoy violence in the form of football. He speculated that because it was so impersonal, they failed to sate their lust for it, and this lust then made itself apparent in the form of assault and murders. Then the obvious next step is to look at American's vicarious enjoyment of sex. Madonna's Truth or Dare consists of her simulating sex while an audience hoots and cheers. I'm sure the aforementioned body-piercing guy would find this equally strange. And, again, this "acquired dread of sex" of most Americans combined with a voyeuristic fascination with other people doing it creates a society where urges for sex are filled in harmful ways, either by self-harming anorexia, or by people exploiting other people through sex.
I think it's pretty clear that mass media was necessary to create this condition. High technology allows Madonna's ritualized sex to be exhibited to many, instead of forcing them to seek direct personal satisfaction. It benefits no one in the long term, as no one benefits from an unstable and dangerous society. In the short term, enormous amounts of people will and do make enormous profit through feeding restrained urges. The wonder of high tech is that everyone can see it, everyone has access to half of the show. Only the elite are allowed to actually broadcast information, of course, but most people don't care. You only need a few producers to nurture all the feeders, after all.