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AMERICAN DREAMS



"The American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position. -James Truslow Adams //The Epic of America//, 1931

It seems we living the American dream  But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem The prettiest people do the ugliest things For the road to riches and diamond rings

-Kanye West(All Falls Down)



Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Fitzgerald (//The Great Gatsby)//

 ** AMERICAN DREAMS **     ** It is a land of dreams. What is important, in America, Is not The transitional now, The steam press laundry, The cardboard box, The call center avalanche, But the glistening pearls of the future, The future which the dream will deliver. The dream, it is hypothesized, Is always achievable. Barriers are there to be surmounted. The hippopotamus of improbability Is there to be dismissed. America Dreams that the impossible is possible, That the son of, say, A Kenyan goatherd, Can beanstalk in one stupendous bound Right to the Oval Office. It is the conceit of American analytics That anyone can do this if they try, As long as they try Hard enough.

 We imagine that a million Do try. And succeed. A million eyeballs implode To the single office. Instant pate! Americans value, fiercely, Their right to enjoy the wealth They will one day achieve (Though not necessarily in this lifetime). In that yet-to-be-accessed world Of unlimited splurges, All giveable gifts will be given. Meantime, in the quotidian mundane, The average American is still affluent enough To supersize everything. The American dream is certainly achievable At the level of the hamburger. I confess to liking American books, American movies And American music. But the hamburger? No, that doesn't do it for me. However, The universally available hot apple pie, Found on sale right around the planet, That part of the American dream I can live. By - ?



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Anti-americanism **