I agree it&#x27;s probably a human universal. But the TV and cinema are special here - as you said, they&#x27;re a very effective delivery vector, but moreover, movies usually cover vast range of things, and we watch shit ton of them. For instance, have you ever seen a real assault rifle? Maybe you have, but I haven&#x27;t - so all I feel about them, i.e. my intuitive knowledge (as opposed to stuff I read on Wikipedia) comes from movies and videogames. I haven&#x27;t seen a live round fired from a gun in my life, but I &quot;know&quot; how it sounds, how the bullets behave, etc. Half of it is probably wrong, but barring a real-life experience, that&#x27;s all I&#x27;ve got. And while campfire stories could cover things in the abstract, movies let you cache images of just about anything - from how to bake pancakes, to how to deal with angry people, to how planes work. I think we&#x27;re underestimating just how much &quot;life experience&quot; of an ordinary person comes from TV - and thus how much of it is wrong.