May 31, 2024 10:45
By all accounts, for entire generations, the American Dream isn't just dead, it doesn't exist. Our futures are dreamless nights.
The American Dream that has existed in this country for over 50 years is on life support. The American dream, a term first used by
a Depression-era historian named James Truslow Adams is finally defunct.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” -Emma Lazarus’s Petrarchan conceit
dr. π (pi)
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poetry,
freedom,
america the beautiful