Remember the show "Connections" from the BBC and they would take some technology like a steam coal shovel and explain how that somehow resulted in a series of cause and affect conditions that made the moon landing possible. It was like an hour of being spoon fed all this fascinating material in depth.

TV content used to be more nutritious for your brain. Then somehow everything became just pure fried sugar devoid of any beneficial or meaningful content. Why does everything end up being reduced to the lowest effort schlock?