I thought that type of thinking was specifically an American thing, where we are told individuals must take responsibility for and solve the problems created by

I thought that type of thinking was specifically an American thing, where we are told individuals must take responsibility for and solve the problems created by huge government/business decisions. Almost every human has an appetite for some sort of mind alteration, but all the harms you describe here are from fucked up legal situations that have been imposed on us to control the profit and political power that trade would shift.