You have it right, hyper individualistic consumerism. When George Bush said after 9/11. “Don’t worry, go back to the mall and go shopping” he opened Pandora’s box. The salve for scarred shitless of terrorists was to juice the economy with Ninja home loans. A giant Mascaraed to make everyone a homeowner until the private equity groups swooped in and foreclosed without any evidence of owning a mortgage, hyper growth enabled stock market manipulation for the richest of the rich, a shipload of cheap shit to buy at Walmart, target, Amazon etc. intoxicate ourselves on cheap credit and cheap goods to make us all feel like we are middle class. We have all been/seen this. The dirt poor bro family of uneducated nitwits filling their shopping trough with crappy furniture, electronics, obesity foods and just plan junk imported from China. They are happy as pigs in slop because they could actually buy something after 80 hours at the local minimum wage employer. They feel middle class, they will throw the crap away in 6 months because it’s broken Chinese manufactured crap using slave labor and children. The smiles are big, the ignorance enormous, the hate and fear of others is great and they truly have no future. But they will buy til they die. Because that’s what we do in America. Consume, Hate, plot the governments demise. All without a single thought of the future, their own sad lives, the willful stupidity flowing through their veins like heroin to a junkie. Aren’t we all junkies for America, regardless if we see her through beer goggles or without any glasses at all? She is beautiful, so is her cheap consumer crap, her poison water, unsurvivable temperatures and weather disasters, her school to prison pipeline, handmaids tale theocracy, surveillance society and cheap imported Chinese garbage! The American Dream!! all without a word on terrorists because they are now US!