What if the America Dream were to be changed?

[Skidmore]

I think the construct which has come to be known as the American Dream has changed over the years to fit the demands of the the times. Frankly, it has gone off the tracks. There was a thread yesterday which was all over a poll that pointed to Americans no longer believing "The Dream," writ large, was available to them. Let me suggest that the dream perhaps needs to change to fit the needs of the time yet again. We are no longer a wide open frontier offering boundless resources into infinity. Our planet is suffering. Whole groups of people are being shut out in a ruthless game of grabbing wealth without regard for the common good. Our institutions have been coopted to excuse lawlessness and disregard for civic responsibility all in the name of maximizing wealth acquisition for a few.

I posted this link to an organization which is grappling with dreaming differently and it is worthwhile to visit this site and entertain ideaws of the ideas of an expanded socially and environmentally Dream can be achieved. I would be interested in reading your thoughts on this. The link to the organization is below. How can a new American Dream be operationalized to better reflect the concerns of the people of the nation?

http://www.newdream.org/

[Sherman A1]

1. Agreed

The dream is changing, perhaps it always was and will continue to do so and it must, hopefully it will do so in a time frame that allows the planet and mankind to survive.

[loudsue]

2. That site looks great! I'm sick of the usual commercial giving schemes, Walmart fights

on tv during the holiday season, and endless sucking of hard-earned money out of the pockets of guilt-ridden givers.

Check it out!

[Trillo]

3. The original dream was independence.

I often wonder when that changed to "homeownership", which seems to now be on the wane. I'm guessing it had to do with the financialization of everything that occurred in the early 1900s, roughly coincident with the establishment of the Federal Reserve, the beginning of our great fascism.