Listing those most responsible for the mess of American culture

Starting with those most responsible first: 1. the Big Media, 2. Big Business, 3. the politicians, 4. the academic world...Who these people actually are is for some other list.

Politicians won't go against the "political correctness" of the Media because the Media can destroy them if they do. Big business cares mainly about making money and any improvements they make are ultimately based on making money. Religion has been almost useless having been destroyed by the Big Media and the academic world. Parents alone have not offset the cultural power and degenerate influence of the Big Media and the educational system.

That is a lot of strong forces against having a healthy America. But life is instinctively resilient and optimistic no-matter what the cultural trends are doing or not doing. Basic human nature will return, as it always has. As E.O. Wilson said: "Within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals."

We all remain essentially kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. Rational and instinctive channeling of human nature and human drives into cultures that harmonize with real human nature will move in this basically conservative direction, because that is what we always return to when too large empires fall.