RE: "The American Dream" is just a myth we tell ourselves
April 16, 2019 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2019 at 10:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You probably did hear it, and you did those things anyway. The data collected only validates something that's been a truism of folk knowledge for generations.
It's presence is ubiquitous in common expressions, songs, novels, movies, and the lived experience of the poor. It's at least as old as the alger myth, which may have been the authors direct response to those criticisms and general feeling. The failures (and end) of initial westward expansion created circumstances or exposed a reality that deadened whatever sense of unlimited american opportunity and mobility that existed prior to, after which point it carried on in the uninformed fantasies of migrants from other countries whose only experience of the US were those very same propagandist myths and legends. On life support, it got a hell of an assist by simply disregarding the demographics of the US for which american opportunity had never been true in the first place.
It's presence is ubiquitous in common expressions, songs, novels, movies, and the lived experience of the poor. It's at least as old as the alger myth, which may have been the authors direct response to those criticisms and general feeling. The failures (and end) of initial westward expansion created circumstances or exposed a reality that deadened whatever sense of unlimited american opportunity and mobility that existed prior to, after which point it carried on in the uninformed fantasies of migrants from other countries whose only experience of the US were those very same propagandist myths and legends. On life support, it got a hell of an assist by simply disregarding the demographics of the US for which american opportunity had never been true in the first place.
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