Manufactured...Everything is these days, from politicians, to ideals and even people's own independent thought as that's often created through the propaganda forced down people's throats at every turn...That they swallow down with glee and ignorance.
Nothing seems organic anymore...It's all contrived, created and controlled.
Pathetic really, but humanity has allowed it through lack of action. The powers at the top pull the strings and keep feeding us the shit they want us to eat removing freedom of thought a little more each day and so the population focuses on the things they think they are choosing and those things cement the process in place and create new platforms of reality.