American Idiot? Or Worldwide "Idiocracy"?

Lights dim, silence falls, curtain rises...the stage suddenly lights up with blinding flashing lights, fills up with punk rock teenagers loudly singing:

Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.

The show played what was the stereotypical life of Americans, specifically teenagers who believe that their future won't be any different than their life at the present. 

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On Holiday

The idea that Johnny, Will and Tunny decided to move out and change their lives was a start. But then reality hits and Will's girlfriend tells him she's pregnant, leaving him no choice but to stay.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.

Nothing ever goes as planned, there is always a dilemma or something unexpected that happens and stalls anyone from doing what they want to do. Even when Johnny and Tunny were able to leave, Tunny enlists himself in the army after discovering that life anywhere, whether its a city or a town, is pointless. 

Can I get another Amen?
There's a flag wrapped around a score of men
A gag, a plastic bag on a monument
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

Johnny is left alone in the city, not what he expected out of it. The better life turned into alcohol, sex, and drugs, which eventually led to losing the girl he loved. 

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone
Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone

Maybe America is where it is more obvious, but I believe that what happens in the show also happens in a lot of places around the world. Maybe in different forms, but in the end we are all influenced by the same source, THE MEDIA. At one point in a teen's or anyone's life, they have been influenced by the media in one way or another. The media probably has the strongest power in the world right now, anything can get through it, unfortunately.

One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.