fundamentally alienated from society

While on vacation I encountered television. In my everyday life, I'm not exposed to the visual medium. Some of it's the same as it was years ago: seen one Hallmark movie, you've pretty much seen them all and if you're me you've seen one too many. But this time I encountered something I'd never seen before and I was quite disturbed.

On the Disney channel (or one of them) there was a show which featured teams of people building things with food. Now there are lots of shows where people cook things and some of them are quite good. But this was building. On a massive scale. Cubic meters of food. Which was not intended to be tasted at all. They were using food to construct creations or sculptures or sets (I wouldn't stretch it so far to say art). For a half hour show they are trashing literally hundreds of pounds of food. All of the themes involved a tie in with one of the major Disney franchises (Star Wars, Marvel). So we are wasting insane amounts of food for cheap movie tie-in advertising.

At the beginning of each show they announced that any food the contestants don't use will be donated (although they don't say to charity, so maybe it's to the staff cafeteria).

I find the fact that this is done with no sense of irony to be more dystopian than Squid Game.