american dream

We have become a nation without restraint, fed at the trough of greed and materialism, told we are worthless unless we are all CEO’s, unless we are all driving the best cars and watching our nightly shows on the biggest, flattest , most colorful screens available. We are taught to emulate pop-stars and business executives rather than poets and heroes–unless, of course, those poets are rappers, or those heroes are only heroes of the Will Smith variety–fictional and easily categorized. Read more »