Topic: The American Dream - page 2. (Read 1849 times)
Replace 'advertising' with 'the american dream'
The American dream, Made in China.
American dream is basically capitalism. If you are in the middle-class you try to jump upside and be rich.
The American dream of a house with a white picket fence and a car in the garage.
It is basically an ideal of having a productive society where you work to pay for your house, you have a car that you can use to get to work and a fence to signify ownership of your own piece of the world.
Unfortunately the banks took the dream and turned the house into your chains for your slavery to working for the bank and making payments on your car. And the fence became your prison walls where you are supposed to stay put and be a good citizen.
It is basically an ideal of having a productive society where you work to pay for your house, you have a car that you can use to get to work and a fence to signify ownership of your own piece of the world.
Unfortunately the banks took the dream and turned the house into your chains for your slavery to working for the bank and making payments on your car. And the fence became your prison walls where you are supposed to stay put and be a good citizen.
My conjecture is that the term itself is a reflection of something which is ultimately unattainable and more deeply, reflective of a cognitive dissonance central to American culture. Discuss...
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