It's The Matrix. Cradle to grave, it's all training.

We are trained to work all day long to create their Utopia.

We are trained to not think about life, the universe, and everything.

We are trained to not dream our own dreams, but dream the dreams they want us to have. By making our dreams for us (Hollyweird, books, etc.), they limit our development and turn reality into fantasy. When reality is fantasy, any thoughts that they are reality is crazy. It is a self-correcting mechanism of The Matrix.

We are trained to keep each other locked within The Matrix, all acting like little Agent Smiths, ready to pop up at any time, whenever anyone looks at the walls of The Matrix that contain them.

We are trained to see each other as the enemy, "the Left", "the Right", all contrived and controlled to make us believe "the other side is evil"; "the other side is lying."

We are trained to listen to the Ministry of Truth, and to shun anyone else without their "proper credentials".

We are trained to report each other to the Ministry of Love lest we "cause undue harm" to each other.

We are trained to believe the Ministry of Plenty is doing the best job they can for us, protecting us from that which would harm us. We are trained to eat their food, even though it all causes heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

We are trained to believe that the Ministry of Peace (UN "Peace and Security") is doing everything it can to protect the world from "the inevitability of conflict and war". We are trained to never look at the fact that the same people that created the Ministry of Peace also owns all the countries that are "inevitably in conflict and war".

We are trained to believe that the resultant drugery of existence that all this training creates is "the Human condition," and "this is just how life is."

This training started ever so much further back than "the Flintstones." In fact, on the timeline of our training, the Flintstones came in almost at the very end.