Sadly, it’s how we (the US) choose to present ourselves to the world in popular culture.
US Politics, reality TV, celebrity culture, corporate shenanigans, fast food dependence, sub-par public education, and so on. This is the crap we choose to give the majority of our air time to and what gets broadcast and published to the world.
What’s upsetting is that, in reality, this crap represents the smaller percentage of Americans. Many Americans work very hard, are clever and resourceful, are well educated, care about what they eat, their environment, and their community, have traveled the world, care about culture and the arts, help our neighbors, care not for celebrity, and are genuinely good people.
Instead, we choose to present, no… celebrate our lowest common denominators as our face to the world.
I don’t get it. Maybe we are stupid.