Americans want things to work the way they are supposed to work, but they themselves don’t want to make any concessions or adaptations to help that happen. (Efficiency is a goal for everyone else.)

Americans want to focus only on that which they want to be responsible for, but still have everything be taken care of. (Following their bliss.)

Americans want someone to manage their lives, but in a way that makes them feel and appear free and independent. (… and more intelligent than they really are.)

In essence, Americans want an intimate girlfriend when no one else is around, but treat her as a maid so they can be free and single when their friends are present.