I didn't understand conditioning until I took a psychology 101 course in college, which was quite some time ago. Since then, I've become aware that we're all constantly being conditioned to some extent, such as in subliminal training to push our acceptance of thoughts and ideas we wouldn't accept before.

The TV is still very powerful for administering the conditioning, and now social media has only amplified TV's power to condition us, while social media itself works hard to condition us to be as nasty as we can be to anyone who disagrees with us.