What the hell is the "whatever" that everyone is convinced that the totality of human media efforts are supposed to be disstracting us from? Literal space alien

What the hell is the "whatever" that everyone is convinced that the totality of human media efforts are supposed to be disstracting us from? Literal space aliens, literal demons, religion, communism, fear of death, fear of life, pollution, the coming fall of government, the apocalypse, and modern life being meaningless. Pardon the redundancies but the rhetoric is far more a rorsarch test or method of indexing than an objective truth. I have mostly seen it as a squid-in-mouth level of crazy personal assumptions projected onto everybody else by a fanatic to explain the impossibility that nobody else cares.