"therapeutic, technological, consumerist militarism".

[Joe Chi Minh]

(snip) "He does an admirable job explaining the teachings of theologian Walter Brueggemann, who diagnoses American society as suffering from "the script of therapeutic, technological, consumerist militarism". By "therapeutic" Brueggemann means the delusion that every ache and pain can be treated, "so that life may be lived without inconvenience." "Technological" refers to our false belief that human ingenuity can fix everything; "consumerist" to the belief that all resources are ours for the taking, without regard for our neighbour; and "militarism" to the obsession with protecting all that is needed for the life implied by the other false beliefs."

Cumbersome but pithy diagnosis, isn't it?

The article that it's taken from is at this link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/aug/05/changing-the-script-daniel-schultz