Is the American Dream dead?
Is the American Dream dead?
That's an interesting question and up for much debate. Why? Because dreams are just that: dreams. They are wishful meanderings of the mind, there to encourage or challenge us.
The American Dream, that ideal we all grew up hearing about, wherein everyone is financially stable, white picket fences and 2.2 children is gone. Modern Americans now struggle to put a roof over their children's heads at all, job security is a legend of a bygone era and the promise of upward mobility is a relic of the past.
Corporate personhood, the 1% and the accumulation of a majority of the worlds wealth/resources by just a few has ensured a world where upward mobility is a pipe dream, not an American one.
Now the American Dream is merely not to slide backwards - to find peace and contentment at your station in life instead of 'dreaming' of a better life
via +Marty Nozz
Originally shared by Wisecrack
Captain America's got a question for you: Is The American Dream A Sham? New 8-Bit Philosophy is here – and be sure to vote at the end!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGH3029HI58&feature=autoshare
That's an interesting question and up for much debate. Why? Because dreams are just that: dreams. They are wishful meanderings of the mind, there to encourage or challenge us.
The American Dream, that ideal we all grew up hearing about, wherein everyone is financially stable, white picket fences and 2.2 children is gone. Modern Americans now struggle to put a roof over their children's heads at all, job security is a legend of a bygone era and the promise of upward mobility is a relic of the past.
Corporate personhood, the 1% and the accumulation of a majority of the worlds wealth/resources by just a few has ensured a world where upward mobility is a pipe dream, not an American one.
Now the American Dream is merely not to slide backwards - to find peace and contentment at your station in life instead of 'dreaming' of a better life
via +Marty Nozz
Originally shared by Wisecrack
Captain America's got a question for you: Is The American Dream A Sham? New 8-Bit Philosophy is here – and be sure to vote at the end!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGH3029HI58&feature=autoshare
Comments
When American citizens make reference to the "dream", they're often talking about living up to example their parents set. But the social changes of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s lowered that bar so low that it left young adults of the 90s and 2000s figuring out how to define themselves. In that sense, the dream is dead.