I concur. It is, however, important to realize that this observations applies not only to white suburbanites, but everyone - including ghetto dwellers and left-of-the-centre literati. The irony is that ghetto dwellers are indeed plagued by more than a fair share of lazy, stupid, anti-social and criminal elements and survive only thanks to their delusions and denials. As to the left-of the-centre literati - they suffer from a cognitive gap between their expectation s and the reality which would put them in mental institutions had it not been for their delusions and denials.
A few years ago I watched the film _Matrix_ on a trans-atlantic flight (which is my main venue for the mainstream movies). An interesting sub-theme of that otherwise predicable action flick was the concept oh human being as batteries being tapped for their power (labor-power?) while their sensory organs were being fed images that conceal the ugly reality. This struck me as an unusually accurate description of the United States - a big flickering image, a delusion of monumental proportions projected on a globals scale. Flip the switch off, the flickering light goes out and the American reality is right in front of your eyes in all its hideous ugliness.
I think that Bush administration's only service to humanity is making that hideous ugliness plainly visible for everyone to see.
Wojtek