This is what Inio Asano's "Oyasumi Punpun" is about. Pegasus's cult is right, and the collapse of the cosmic order is instantiated as Punpun's life, who is incapable--like the American--of perceiving higher, non-localized consciousness.
You have to understand that Americans are wholly incapable of understanding anything outside the realm of individualism. Every development of consciousness in America is expressed in purely individualist ways.