More and more and more the United States's problems are summarized as "mass cognitive dissonance" because there are a lot of people whose entire world view woul

More and more and more the United States's problems are summarized as "mass cognitive dissonance" because there are a lot of people whose entire world view would collapse and leave them with very little, were they to stop dunking their heads in the kool-aid every day. Even worse if you're part of an older generation and deep down part of you knows that you're equivocating and rationalizing a dying dream. Maybe throw in a dose of American exceptionalism too, for the folks in the thread implying that, well, I shouldn't quote that phrase, that's tacky, but we'll just glorifying, justifying and seemingly promoting the soul-suckingness of work because their own soul is devoid of any individual or social pursuits outside of work.