Its a question of balance
The civilizations of the east may call American "The great Satan", but one must remember that they are doing it to pander to to their own populations, they don't really care what the West think.
It is true that the secular West is excessive in its wealth, myopically planning for short term gain and ignoring the long term ramifications of its decadence and avarice. However, the conservative East is just guilty of a litany of sins. Repression of the female principle in open society, outdated and arbitrary law with punishments based more on social standing and connections than anything else, prohibiting free thought, repression of the poor and using the uneducated and mostly ignorant masses to further the political agendas of the elite classes.
I sympathize with you as you are speaking of your own country, but do not lose sight that in order to survive, mankind as a whole has got to find a balance of Western progressive thought tempered with Eastern conservatism.
Prick your finger it is done
The Moon has now eclipsed the Sun
The Angel has spread its wings
The time has come for bitter things
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