the American Dream

A detailed Summary of the American Dream

Is America today closer to the attainment of the ‚ 'Dream' than it was in 1931, or has the 'Dream' been lost or even turned into a ‚Nightmare'?

The American 'Dream'; what is it all about? Is it only an illusionary 'Dream' which is a perfect means of a societal system to give it a structural character, in order to give the individuals the consciousness that their lives have a sense or should have a sense? Moreover, does an impartial objective exist which does not depend on the goals of the individual and thus produces unity and a national consciousness? Or turned Fortuna her wheel of destiny and therefore created a new kind of society which strives only for the individual happiness? But does Fortuna really exist or is she embodied in the eternal economical progress? We can only find an answer to these questions if we utilize the means of logical thinking and above all criticism which enables us to find out what this 'Dream' is all about and what means does it make use of to put blinkers on our eyes in order to prevent us from noticing the faults of the system.

To think that the 'American Dream' is only limited to the material aspect, namely gaining as much money as you are able to do independent of your social status, is ve

The 'Dream' helps us to realize our desire for getting forward, to progress, because it represents the values which are needed to develop the compensation of being banned from the paradise. We have cost from the apple of cognition and must carry the heavy consequences of this sin. Now we are longing for this state of harmony, but the Cherubim guards the entrance to the paradise with its ardent sword and thus we are supposed to find the compensation of our arrogant act of being greater than the creation, in progress.

So we can see that the 'Dream' has turned out to be a very complex ideological means of a socio-economical structure to prevent it from the inevitable collapse. But the 'Dream' has lost its power due to the increasing desire for getting rid of the blinkers which prevent us from seeing the global consequences of our economic behaviour. But it is very difficult to realize because the machinery works worldwide and we are limited to the environment of our daily social intercourse, due to evolutionary causes which augment the probability of surviving. To trespass these evolutionary borders is a very difficult step, but actually now in the age of technology it should be easy to risk this fundamental step. But then we have to confront the anxiety of being an outsider, one of the single persons, which are not welcome in the house of social order, and thus a lot of these people, who do not want to be a simple gearwheel within a huge machinery, try to live two

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