The fact is that every society always is runned by some kind of ideology

An ideology is a malfunction in the human mind, which functions with Machiavelli´s implied, terrible, assumption, that the end justifies the means, and where the means to get there is to make people into slaves for this goal.

Today people undoubtedly are being made into empty consumer machines.

There is no doubt either, that we are being supplied with some kind of virtual reality through psychological theories, that seems to justify Machiavelli´s famous and notorious assumption - for instance through elimination of critical thinking.