At this time of sluggish wages, massive unemployment, home foreclosures, global unrest, mass starvation, multiple genocides, and that ever-looming "Inconvenient Truth" about the state of our planet, is it any wonder that many feel that their personal notion of the American Dream is slowly slipping away? Long gone is the unique American social phenomenon that each new generation will automatically "do better" than the last. Whether that dream was the kind imagined in John Winthrop's "City Upon a Hill," or Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of racial equality, or the one most often defined by the "almighty dollar," things are starting to feel more and more like "The Grapes of Wrath" than "The Great Gatsby." Like the gross, classless, tasteless reality of the Real Housewives of Orange County, Atlanta or the Big Apple, all of the material trappings of Mac Mansions, sweet (gas-guzzling) rides valet-parked out back, and a never-ending search for bigger and brighter "blood" bling-bling only serve as visual reminders of what separate the relatively few successful "Haves" from the growing number of not-so-successful "Have-nots." As a nation that traditionally focused on thrift and hard work to accomplish its goals of the American Dream, we used to hold the saying "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." with high regard.
Michael Dejong: From Nightmares To Dreams Come True
Michael DeJong, Huffington Post: Living
Tue, 01/13/2009 - 10:55am
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