"Americans hate thinking about the past."
"Consumption is a private affair. It requires only the self."
"But in a technocratic culture — what the media scholar Neil Postman called a 'technopoly' — technology is its own justification. It's the driving force of life."
"American life is a river of noise and pressure, a teeming mass of consumer appetites."
"Many of us are happy to live with half-truths and ambiguity rather than risk being cut out of the herd. The culture of lies thrives on our own complicity, lack of courage, and self-deception."
"God has never been more cast out from the Western mind than he is today."

Actually Chaput has some valid points here.  As a physician of American culture, his diagnosis is largely correct.  It is his prescription that is entirely wrong.  American culture is dominated by Ayn Rand's atheist/materialist philosophy.  It is mindless consumerism and narcissism that has brought us where we are today and delivered us Trump as president.