I feel like SOUTHLAND TALES, a movie written and shot before the iPhone was released, is quite helpful here. The movie emphasizes all of our post-9/11 failings in American culture at a time before Facebook or Twitter or any of the social media nonsense people blame the current awfulness on. The problems we face as Americans are far deeper than "cell phones" or "the Internet".

Those problems are American problems. They are human problems. You see them everywhere not just here.