Beware of statements like that. What they usually mean is: “this country treats its citizens like adults, giving them what they need, but in turn demanding certain things of them.”

The fact is, the liberal mind demands infantilization. If you aren’t being entertained 24/7, if you have to take responsibilities, liberals will usually conclude that you’re miserable. There’s a reason why so many liberal utopias involve complete automation (probably impossible scientifically). But in fact growing up, and being happy, involves going outside the little bubble of your individuality and serving the community. People are species beings; they derive fulfillment from making things together, from advancing society in concert with other human beings. Liberals deny this, which is why they’re so damn miserable all the time. When was the last time you met a happy lib?

EDIT: I’ve heard the “staged” bit before, and I think this is what it refers to. Most healthy societies are a good deal more ritualistic than ours. Everything in the society tends to reference – to one degree or another – the things which that society holds as supremely important. (Note: I’m speaking of the superstructure here, not the base). In Europe, during the Middle Ages, that was the idea of God. In modern American society, that idea is money. In Korea, it is the revolution and the Juche Idea. You find that embodied everywhere, in posters and statues and murals, and to a certain extent probably referenced in people’s everyday speech. Westerners think this sort of thing is weird, but really, it’s not. It’s just normal, and human.