The "American Dream" is such a scam...

[misanthropicskin]

Argument: The "American Dream" is dead, but is paid lipservice to as a method of social control.


What is the American Dream? We often hear that "a wife, a car, a house with a white picket fence, and 2.3 kids" sort of "chicken in every pot" Hoover propaganda. IE, they give us a materialist view of success so that we will go to work, buy, maybe invest (not bloody likely as far as most of the population goes), et cetera. We will take what we can get, thinking what we have makes us who we are.

I define the American Dream, for all intents and purposes, as the hope, which once was reality, that we will be better off politically, financially, socially, than our parents, and that our children will hopefully surpass us. However, each generation sees the barriers to entry raise so much that if they didn't get a kick start, they fall behind. Frankly, I believe that my parents generation (my father was born in 1950, my mother in 1955. I was born in 1984 -- somewhat iconic) is the last one that as a whole will see that become reality.

Economically, barriers to entry are increasing exponentially. The "Old Guard" in each industry has made it so that startups are all but impossible. Oil is controlled by private cartells. Despite Apple, Linux and the BSDs, and a slew of other systems, Microsoft has a stranglehold on technology. Good luck starting your own media empire or practically everything else. Wages are sinking -- H1B visas and outsourcing are bleeding out country of our tech and engineering jobs while illegal immigration and again outsourcing are bleeding our unskilled labour and even of skilled labour in factories which is now being done in Chinese prison camps and whatnot. Frankly, do you really think that your children are EVER going to be able to make enough money to buy a house? I doubt I ever will. Frankly, I suspect I'll be paying exhorbinant rent in Richmond for the rest of my life, or until my parents die and I inheret their house. If I have to pay rent which is almost as much as a mortage payment then how am I supposed to make ends meet AND save?

Politically, this is preaching to the choir around here. Our rights are being ignored while fake rights are made up. Our liberties are being erroded in the name of fighting "terrorism," whatever the hell that is anyway.

Socially, we are becoming so diluted that being "American" barely means anything anymore. I used to wear it as a badge of honour, being part of the "love it or leave it" crowed. These days, I'm almost ashamed of my flag.

Frankly, this is not the country that my grandfathers fought for in World War II, let alone what my ancestors who fought in the Revolution (yes, my family hs been here that long, except for a bit of new blood from the old country in the Irish famine; I am decended from William Dawes who road with Paul Revere. I am also related to Franklin Pierce, which does make me distantly related to Bush...sorry) thought they were going to get out of it.

However, politicians play up the "American Dream," speaking of "Middle Class values" and all that crap. Why? To seem folky. But they are not. Their children WILL live a better life than the ones they lead, because they are building the power infrastructure to ensure it, and at our expense. So long as they keep saying it though, people buy it. but what they are buying into is picket fences and chickens in pots. It's the "I've got mine" mentality put to them in a top-down fashion.

In our current state of affairs, the American dream is dead. But perhaps there is still enough of a pulse and enough people who believe that their children deserve a better life than their own that we can salvage it. If we remind them that the American dream is in fact a better life for their children, and we don't mean a bunch of Nikes.

I want a world where my children can be proud of who and what they are, and what they have. I want them to be able to actually own a piece of earth like my parents and theirs before them back and so on, because I fear I wont be able to. I want them to have freedom of speech and thought. I want them to breath cleanly; not live at the whims of tyrants and oligarchs, political or economic.

But it is becoming increasingly obvious to me that They will not be able to know the America that I knew when I was little, or that my parents knew. They will have to live under a different flag and a different Constitution. Why? Well, the answer is simply revolution. We must cast asside the old order in order to preserve the old freedoms and liberties. We need a system in which the people profit from the fruites of their labour, not in which others profit from it. We need a system in which demogogues are not allowed to rise to prominance, nor where forgeign and alien influences may sway us from living our lives to their fullest extent, enjoying them, protecting our life and liberty jealously.

Of course, I am not sure exactly what form this should take. It's a topic for debate, maybe not here, maybe do. One of the benfits of being a college student is that I get to sit around and think a lot, and read. Until recently I thought the answer was National Socialism. I think now what I really meant was a Social Nationalism. I at one point published a paper on Stormfront entitled "Manifesto of the Anti-Federalist Posse Comitatus" in which I argued for extreme localization. However, the wy of the world, that cannot happen, truthfully, without us being over run by China.

I'll muse on this some more and perhaps post something more comprehensive. I'd like some input thought.

Cheers.

[Gyps]

"It's called the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." ~Geroge Carlin

[Gyps]

"It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." ~George Carlin