The American Dream?

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ETA: I no longer own the BMW-I traded it for a Volvo

Did you know that you can now get washers and dryers in 'designer' colors? Seriously, designer color washers and dryers. WHY? We have gone from the land of plenty to the land of too damn much. The dealership where take my car for service has a car "spa." Car. Spa. For $500+ (depending on the model) you can get the top of the line service with q-tip detailing. Let me just say right now in the interest of full disclosure, that I do drive a BMW, so call me a hypocrite when it comes to my bitching here, but I have never, ever paid $500 to have my car detailed.
I look around every day and see expanding waist lines caused by bigger portions, bigger cars that use too much gas (and rarely carry more than 2 or 3 people despite the advent of 3rd row seating), and McMansions that are so big families can be in the same house and not even know it, and wonder what happened? Is that the American dream? Is this really what the founding fathers had in mind when they fled England over 2 centuries ago? A land full the of spoiled, fat and ignorant? How many Americans speak a foreign language? How many can barely speak their native tongue? How many know who the Prime Minister of Canada is? How many can even find Canada on a map?
Americans are beoming nationalists again, which as we discovered in the early 1940's can be very dangerous. For the most part, if it doesn't happen to us directly, we don't seem to care. Even Sept. 11 seems to have faded into a distant memory for most. Something we see on the news every few months and mark with a moment of silence on the anniversary. Dec 7 was a date that would live in infamy, but I bet you the majority of people under the age of 50 have almost no idea what happened that day. We simply have no respect for anything anymore.
The rest of the world is rapidly following our lead in consumerism and eating and values, which is quite possibly the biggest crime against humanity in history.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm not upset about being American and I'm not anti-American. Americans do a lot of good around the world. When disaster strikes another country, we're right there to help, even if no one ever remembers that. My problem is that we are a ridiculously wealthy country, but we have fallen somewhere along the way. I'm not talking about politics here, I'm talking about losing our core sense of self in this over driven over scheduled, over hectic lifestyle we lead thinking we're living the American dream. It's exhausting