*Warning: THE SYNDICATE DOES NOT EXIST*
Yes, magazines are a dying medium, but hear me out. How much of the Western world is shaped by entertainment and media? I give you a challenge to walk into a store and find a magazine shelf and notice how there's a general theme. And the theme tends to be "Relationships are out of fashion."
Long gone are the hay days of COSMOPOLITAN, MARIE CLAIRE, and GLAMOUR, where random women could read teaser articles concerning their marriage or helping their sex life. Instead, the magazine rack has been invaded by "dentist office" reading material.
In 2016 TikTok was introduced to America, however in 2023, 87% of adults admitted to reading a magazine in the last six months. The internet played a part in eliminating what those $6 dollar pieces of paper did in society...keep men and women capable of relating.
Sure, those articles had lies and writers simply made things up. But, it told men and women to, at least, try to stay together.
In 2012, for China the divorce rate have increased higher then the marriage rate, and peaked at 4.71 million couples in 2019 . Aside for cultural differences that China is governed by, their entertainment medium has Western influence going back to 1988.Yet China only introduced the concept of divorce in 1950.
Since the highest divorce rate is in The Maldives, let's look at their most popular entertainment magazines. It's travel publications. Nothing tells couples more it's time to break up than showing pictures of where they could be in life without another person bringing them down.
Sure, maybe it's all a conspiracy theory....or is it?
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