Is our culture "pretending"?

I have always liked this song by MGMT called "Time to Pretend", but the lyrics seem to reflect today's culture and society. We seem to run in these vicious cycles that continue to play over and over again; thinking that living on sex, drugs and models will satisfy all our desires. Yet in the middle of the song they seem to yearn for a better, simpler time. As Jesus talked in Matthew; "in the beginning it was not so" There are some "weeds" in the lyrics but I have posted the clean video version with the cleaner lyrics below in hopes of shinning on the wheat.

I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life.
Let's make some music, make some money, find some models for wives.
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and **** with the stars.
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.

This is our decision, to live fast and die young.
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun.
Yeah, it's overwhelming, but what else can we do.
Get jobs in offices, and wake up for the morning commute.

Forget about our mothers and our friends
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend

I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone.

There's really nothing, nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew.
The models will have children, we'll get a divorce
We'll find some more models, everything must run it's course.

We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end
We were fated to pretend
To pretend...

MGMT, "Time to Pretend" from the album Oracular Spectacular