Both of these things happen.

Yes. It seems like someone dies every year from people stampeding into stores like chattel.

America hasn't lost its way. Its soul has been utterly destroyed by capitalistic black muck. Once consumers, now consumed.

I say this having never lived outside of the West. I've lived in America, London, and Ireland for a short bit. London is creeping up on this level of spiritual aberrance, and Ireland is nowhere near. I'm not sure we can ever be saved.