Sometimes I wonder if America wouldn't be much improved after facing a complete, total loss of normal civil behavior, collapse.
I'd be all Mad Max, Road Warrior, Mohawk-sportin' and in S&M leather, riding a chopper.... teaching these fragile eggs what it would be like to be broken.
When the wrong ISIS wannabe finds the right Dirty Bomb or destroys a specific group of electrical grids in major American cities, you will then see the new Mad Max dystopia.
The main choices in this harsh environment will be to adapt, hide or perish. You might not even have your own phone anymore.