my sweet tooth may actually be my entire jaw

I hear you XD

Rather than eat quality food, exercise regularly, sleep enough, drink enough water and understand how our mind and body work and interact with the world, we avoid the hard work it takes and again put our lives in the hands of others.

I kind of vaguely remember having a similar conversation with a dentist once. You generally (I say because sometimes the genetic lottery just gives you crappy tooth enamel and very little helps there) have good teeth if you have a good diet, but people love their easy convenient crappy food and don't want to hear it, they want to be told and believe that all that has to be done for strong healthy teeth is just to brush properly and regularly with fluoridated toothpaste and floss at least once daily, because that's pretty easy (most of the time, many including me don't floss daily >_>).

I think you've spoken about how it's easier to shift the blame onto someone else than accept/take responsibility for our part in things if something goes wrong, and feel this outsourcing ties into that a bit.