Sure, if your goal is to write a consensus paper based on simple cause-effect TOM, but the human mind is at least a 'three body' problem of community, stressed environment, biological chemical soup(polluted) and recursive modeling(including dreaming), so the emergent result seems impossible to predict beyond the Now. However, the marketers and bullies know that they can dominate the model emergence process by controlling exposure to most of the signals experienced by the developing brain model. "Checks and balances" only work if the checks are small. With data saturation and coercion(social and economic) they can punch down on our children's lizard brains, all while convincing the majority that we are happier being punched than to be alone with our thoughts. If you want to know mind theory, study marketing and religion(redundant, I know). They've had it nailed down for thousands of years. Only recently have academics had freedom and financing to question what has been done with that knowledge.