Yep, and it all comes from vanity. Thomas Aquinas noted that all sins originate from vanity. America needs a new self-esteem movement: to lower it. Humility is a virtue, vanity is a vice. But humility is really hard to achieve when even the left side of the bell curve has no awe of God. Instead of saying grace before dinner they now check their EBT balance online.
I agree about the perfidy of vanity, however I have an unusual definition of vanity, perhaps worthy of consideration.
At several times in the Bible, people did one thing that was pretty assured would get heaven’s attention, and not in a good way. It was in trying to take God’s place, individually and collective, in being “In Charge” of all things.
From the start, eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, “then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
But again and again, people keep trying to assert authority, perhaps the best example being Nimrod and his Tower to Heaven, with much the same idea. Being as gods.
Eventually, up on the mountain talking to Moses, YHVH came through with a whopper of a philosophical statement, with just the pronouncement of His name as “I AM, THAT I AM”. This really shut men and/or mankind out of the supremacy game.
Philosophers only felt they overcame it with Rene Descartes “I think, therefore I am”, you notice the similarity between the two statements. And since he “broke the ice”, philosophers have been going wild with vanity, proclaiming mankind to be the supreme being, defining everything.
As you pointed out, with vanity comes a flood of other vices.