I believe in creating policy that maximises our freedom while minimizing our fear of eachother and failing. Everyone should go for their dreams, and a system should exist that encourages that. We should always have direction.
People in China are fighting their government to be happy right?
Well as you describe it people in America seem pretty happy. There are a lot of resources, and because of that people can become fat, docile creatures who spend their time socializing. Who are you to say that's such a bad thing?
Whilst on one hand we have the "sheep", on the other hand we have the "creative" people who like doing stuff with their lives and making progress for the world. To me that seems like the perfect symbiotic relationship between two types of people, one keeping the world running, so to speak, and the other steering humanity in a direction they seem fit.
I get what you are saying, I truely do. But I feel as though you're looking at it from a wrong perspective. You cannot emphatise with that way of thinking because you are different from it. You can be proud at that if you like, but it does not mean that the role these people have in a society should be undervalued. Don't you agree?
EDIT: Also I was curious, how does a fat "bacteria" hurt the economy? Seems to me the typical American consumer does quite the oposite.