What's a thing in pop culture that probably came directly from the base (unconsciously)?
No need for ideological and government ops (at least not yet), just a good misdirection of ideas from an unwitting person or grifter, that were decidedly purveyed around western liberal mass media, at face value or manipulated beyond originator's intent.
I don't wanna hear shit like "1984". Those were made with the intent to be blatantly anti-communist and pro-western
An example would include the Stanford prison experiments
The idea that handcrafted goods are superior to factory-made ones. In our society this perception is primarily driven by two things: that cheap goods are always factory made (because it simply isn't economical to handcraft IKEA-tier furniture), and that hand-crafted goods often have to justify their increased price by being luxury items (since luxury items' prices are a lot less tied to their inputs than other classes of commodities). Something made by hand isn't necessarily better than something made by a machine, but there's certainly a recurring idea that it is in pop culture.