You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!
George CarlinTag: patriotism stupidity ignorance american-dream servitude
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
David Foster WallaceTag: capitalism consumerism american-dream solipsism dfw
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
William S. BurroughsTag: american-dream
...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust
Nathanael WestTag: disillusionment capitalism conformity social-commentary self-perception american-dream commercialization
I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed.
Howard ZinnTag: lies american-dream hard-work victim-blaming falsity-of-the-american-dream indignation-of-the-poor
I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: women america short-stories american-dream fitzgerald jazz-age-stories
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
George MonbiotTag: wealth american-dream hard-work bootstraps
In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.
Jonathan CulverTag: war united-states usa army failure american-dream soldiers
the American nation today is infantile so much as adolescent—that is ambivalent in its twin desire for both authoritarian structure and the end of parental hegemony
David Foster WallaceTag: american-dream
Kill the body and the head will die.
Hunter S. ThompsonTag: humor drugs american-dream biography
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