This TV documentary details the suboptimization (dominance to the detriment) of society by the economic subsystem. This suboptimization pervades all levels of society heirachy from the top (politics) to the citizens in their day to day lives (TV advertising and the bank bailouts).
http://www.rewtube.com/the-century-of-the-self-episode-1/
http://www.rewtube.com/the-century-of-the-self-episode-2/