And as we become more disconnected, we become more unhappy, and tend to latch onto memes about how "evil" those other people are over there on the other side of the world, and how their evilness is attacking our freedom and perhaps thats why we are unhappy, and therefore it makes us happy to light them up.
What if the warfare state the US has become is really just an unconscious reflection of the underlying unhappiness of its people?
Yeah twisted suffering psyches (psycho-pathy: psyche-suffering).
Well, there you go!