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Been reading a lot of adbusters lately. I can remember a time in my life when I had the rose-tinted glasses perspective. At times I wish I could go back to that. Not that things are good in my life right now. I have a good steady job, a loving boyfriend & kittie, food on the table, wonderful roof over my head, friends, and a car. I can go on but you get the point. Thing is I feel like I need more. And not really in the form of money (Although a bit more wouldn't hurt). I know there's others who feel the same way. Others who have gone to college, graduated, gotten that good job, the American Dream, only to think to themselves..Now what? I don't have the answer really. And i don't think there is one answer either. I think it's different for everyone, yet the same. Guess everyone has to peice it together somehow.
"One one hand, we’d frame American culture with noble poetry that obscures the grim fact of the global economy: our “peace and prosperity” comes at the expense of people we never see whose human or natural resources are tapped out on our behalf. On the other, the benchmarks of that center might be the keepers of our mainstream ethos (Ann Coulter, 50 Cent, Donald Rumsfeld, Toby “We’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way” Keith among them) or our outsized obsessions (the Hummer, the Mall of America, the Atkins diet). Even if we take a less cynical viewpoint - that everyone should have a modicum of comfort, a car or two, a home, good education, healthcare, a lush lawn - we confront the unsustainability of the American dream. There simply aren’t enough resources to go around. By now it should be clear: America is centered on off-centered ideas."
"One one hand, we’d frame American culture with noble poetry that obscures the grim fact of the global economy: our “peace and prosperity” comes at the expense of people we never see whose human or natural resources are tapped out on our behalf. On the other, the benchmarks of that center might be the keepers of our mainstream ethos (Ann Coulter, 50 Cent, Donald Rumsfeld, Toby “We’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way” Keith among them) or our outsized obsessions (the Hummer, the Mall of America, the Atkins diet). Even if we take a less cynical viewpoint - that everyone should have a modicum of comfort, a car or two, a home, good education, healthcare, a lush lawn - we confront the unsustainability of the American dream. There simply aren’t enough resources to go around. By now it should be clear: America is centered on off-centered ideas."