what is the 'american dream'?
 

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?

Living in the Playboy Mansion. (minus the old guys) haha.

Hmm.

I guess the "American" dream is to make enough money to support yourself and get by and not be in debt by doing something in life you enjoy.

My dream, and I'm currently living it I guess, is to save up enough money now so I don't have to worry in the future so I can have plenty of time to fuck off and have no responsibility and hopefully to travel to beaches and to play noise shows.

Doing a lot of drugs in Las Vegas.

An Edward Albee play.

He didn't find the American dream...

"To vulgarise and falsify until the bare lies shine through"

To find what makes you happy and do it, and living the life you want to live.

It's either that or the two-story house, white picket fence, 2.5 kids, and a car in the garage deal.

So what do you suppose I am trying to say?

That the American dream is horseshit? I don't know. Water testing a Mercedes would be fun, though.

You live outside of the US, where life is gloomy and you're poor and oppressed by a corrupt and tyrannical government, so you leave for the US and you become free, wealthy and even more.

Does it apply to every Americas ( north, south, Canada, Mexico, Colombia...)?
The use of 'America' as 'USA' bothers me.

We should be the United States of something else?

No.
But Brazil, Canada etc. are parts of America too.
Maybe shrink the term even more ( like Rica ) so there will be no confusion.

Like Costa Rica?

D'oh!
Erica, then.

United States of that one slut from high school?

We should just called ourselves Inbred States of the Americas...

Actually Mexico is called Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Basically the same thins as what the U.S.A. is doing.

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

United States of Geo-Political Correctness.

Believing you can really control your own life.
fools.

i know what are they thinking?

That's why I could never be an optimist.

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

The American dream is a sickness unto death!

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.

Are you sure that's the meaning?

The american dream is to be the best.

quite positive

I guess you must be living in Canada.

why is that?

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?

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.

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.

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.

Everybody else's nightmare.

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

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

of course, but mainly....

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.

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

That's one hell of a sentence.