It's only dehumanizing if you step into their frame. Anyhow, they call themselves the "herd", and promote something etymologically derived from the latin word for cow (vacca), so...

It's like the more "educated" they get, the more they just accept whatever they're told.

I think you nailed it.

They aren't mindless. They have a job to do. They are a propaganda outlet manufacturing the desired consent and popular culture. They are Lugenpresse.