American Self-Genocide

Reading Hope's Edge now, the Frances and Anna Lappé book following up on food and social justice issues around the world, plus watching the Amazing Race, and I feel an insight coming on. The USA through its navel-gazing ways and incredible economic power has for years been dragging the world down into a sewer of forced "democracy", consumerism at all costs and "emulate us or be assimilated". But when you look at the power they've given business--corporations, the sociopathic non-human entities that make decisions such as whether GMOs are a good idea--it seems they have essentially granted to business the power and right to wholesale slaughter their citizens.

• Sell us cigarettes so we can die of lung cancer and COPD, happy to have the freedom to choice!
• Sell us GMO-infiltrated foods so that we can be the guinea pigs to discover how the human body adapts to protein and other combinations never intended in nature!
• Gimme some of that fatty nutritionless deep fried mock-milk-chocolate covered mayonnaise soaked heartache on a bun, cause I'm rich/poor/middle class and I deserve it!
• Give me more electronic diversions that I can use while not moving so my muscles will turn to mush while I burn tonnes of fossil fuels to amuse my decaying mind with new forms of Tetris!
• Woo yeah, I want some of that antibiotic hormone laced meat and milk, superbugs aren't just going to develop immunity on their own!
• Damn right I agree with that oppressive Americans-own-this-world foreign policy that makes other nations want to bomb us! All hail Old Glory!

The only question is, can the sane countries of the world wait for this slow suicide to take America out of the equation, or will it have irrevokably fucked up nature by then, and so take us all with them?