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Moshe

01.27.2009 02:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jon boy

during the election i was hearing a lot about the 'american dream' so i was wondering (foolishly) what your interpretation of the american dream is?

Believing you can really control your own life.
fools.

jon boy

01.27.2009 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moshe

Believing you can really control your own life.
fools.

i know what are they thinking?

✌➬	01.27.2009 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by deflinus

jerking off to porn and movie stars, do drugs, working at a job you hate or will eventually hate, either become a pussy or an asshole, fuck, marry, divorce, have a kid you don't plan on having and suicide. in whatever order.

all with the occasional moments of happiness that don't make up for the shit life you live

That's why I could never be an optimist.

acousticrock87

01.27.2009 04:52 AM

The American dream is an opportunity to join the reveling bourgeoisie sex market. If you're lucky. Or a sniveling bastard.

pbradley

01.27.2009 04:57 AM

The American dream is a sickness unto death!

Rob Instigator

01.27.2009 10:05 AM

the american dream is to make something out of yourself via hard work. and to be able to do it without the cultural, caste, religious, etc oppressions that keep people "in their place" in much of the world.

✌➬	01.27.2009 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Are you sure that's the meaning?

Sheriff Rhys Chatham

01.27.2009 12:30 PM

The american dream is to be the best.

Rob Instigator

01.27.2009 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ✌➬

Are you sure that's the meaning?

quite positive

✌➬	01.27.2009 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

quite positive

I guess you must be living in Canada.

Rob Instigator

01.27.2009 12:43 PM

why is that?

Rob Instigator

01.27.2009 12:44 PM

The "american dream" is NOT the dream of the country AMERICA.

It is a dream held by those OUTSIDE the USA about what can be accomplished in the USA through hard work and determination.
One can BECOME PRESIDENT damnit.

that's the "american" dream.
Dig?

Dr. Eugene Felikson

01.27.2009 12:45 PM

Can't the American Dream be held by those within the US as well? It seems rather silly to think of it as a purely external sort of thing.

Glice

01.27.2009 01:33 PM

Does anyone else think of Bomb 20 when they think of the American Dream? No-one's uploaded the song to youtube, stupidly, so no linky linky today.

afterthefact

01.27.2009 01:37 PM

Apparently, the American Dream is being able to do an image search for any topic and find a suitable picture to fit your conversation.

My fellow Americans, our dream has finally been realized.

sarramkrop

01.27.2009 01:38 PM

Everybody else's nightmare.

Kloriel

01.27.2009 01:46 PM

don't be a downer. clearly this is the american dream:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPyFfc5Ow3Q

Rob Instigator

01.27.2009 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

Can't the American Dream be held by those within the US as well? It seems rather silly to think of it as a purely external sort of thing.

of course, but mainly....

acousticrock87

01.27.2009 03:12 PM

What Rob said is technically correct, but in reality the American dream is a subconsciously capitalist ideology imposed on the middle class for oppressing the poor.

Glice

01.27.2009 03:21 PM

"...Imposed on the middle class for opressing the poor"

That's one hell of a sentence.

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