Theories as to why Americans have small lives.

The current imaginary god that the plebes worship.

Many a fanatical individual possess small anti-intellectual lives and are accordingly subsumed by the media's infatuation with violence. Since most of these people rarely read, let alone think outside of their conservative envelopes, they are eagerly influenced by what they psychically consume on the TV, internet, radio and like minded peeps.

Thus when a major life episode occurs in people whose prepackaged lives are too inherently vacuous to begin with, a ‘sadistic antipathy event’ occurs, such as the loss of a spouse, job or economic viability. An ‘implosion of the psyche’ experience arises within those who do not possess an adequate societal coping mechanism and therefore feel an intrinsic need to inflict blame or destruction upon someone or something that they perceive has done them wrong. Hence they sense that they must seize a moral obligation to eradicate their imaginary fears via suicidal ideation and consequently seek a subconscious reunion with their artificially flavored god/heaven.