Fortunately, with the likes of PKD, Philip Wylie (in my yout) the various wags with own dictionaries of how Muricans really were/are
... alway there were boffo Mockumentaries on our plight.

cf. "Momism" and Wylie, for just one.

Not that any of these altered the psyches of more than a hand-ful of our tribe. Natch.
The %Unteachables seems to remain ~ the Gravitational Constant of this hubristic bunch.