My European friends think that we’re nutcases with flags on our front porches, God Bless after every speech, and my-child-is-an-outstanding-student bumper stickers.
We have single issue personalities so we are more malleable sheep for the powers that be. We don’t think much about life (that’s how God made it so that’s the way it is) but the advantage of that is that we’re not distracted from working so we’re richer and have more stuff to consume. Is it better to be dumb, rich and happy? Or intellectual, poor and miserable? Isn’t it all a state of mind anyway?