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Originally Posted by Comus
6. How would you describe "The American Dream"? Does it really exist? Did it exist in the past? Has it changed?
I take Marx and Gramsci's view that the "American Dream" as it is now was created by the capitalist post WW2 government of America, in order to establish a dominant, pro-american hegemony in troubled times. Since then it has been challenged, and reinforced in various forms of media up till modern times. Now it's only really believed by dimwitted conservaties, while the liberals who dismiss it have such a skewed view on life that they're not right either.
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That's pretty much how I view it too, at least the archetype White picket fence malarkey. There is a dream but it's a self-made dream and it's not an "American Dream" it's YOUR dream, it's the Comus Dream, the Pobody's Nerfect Dream, and so on and so forth.