Are we dreaming? “The American dream;” you hear about it all the time. I wonder if we’ve always taken it the wrong way. A dream can be an aspiration, sure. That’s how we generally think of “the American dream.” It’s what you can aim for, hope for, strive for, and maybe even reach. But dreams are something else, too. A land apart from reality. A mental environment, untethered from the waking world. People in this country seem particularly adept at denial, selective perception, and many of them really do live, as far as I can tell, in some kind of fantasy land. A dreamscape. Another way to think of “the American dream.”
The Issue with Myths
The Issue with Myths
The Issue with Myths
Are we dreaming? “The American dream;” you hear about it all the time. I wonder if we’ve always taken it the wrong way. A dream can be an aspiration, sure. That’s how we generally think of “the American dream.” It’s what you can aim for, hope for, strive for, and maybe even reach. But dreams are something else, too. A land apart from reality. A mental environment, untethered from the waking world. People in this country seem particularly adept at denial, selective perception, and many of them really do live, as far as I can tell, in some kind of fantasy land. A dreamscape. Another way to think of “the American dream.”