The idea that anyone could rise from nothing through effort and merit, quietly retired in favor of equity, reparations, and systemic explanations for personal failure.
The idea that anyone could rise from nothing through effort and merit, quietly retired in favor of equity, reparations, and systemic explanations for personal failure.
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The aspirational slogan that went from land of opportunity to land of participation trophies and participation grades.
The original hustle culture that got rebranded as toxic, oppressive, and problematic by those who benefit most from its ruins.
The national promise that is slowly being replaced by the idea that success is unearned privilege and failure is someone else’s fault.
The fading national myth that hard work, grit, and playing by the rules could get you ahead now mostly used in real estate ads and political nostalgia porn.
Spending all of the country’s money on defense.
A dream of debt for the next 30 years.
Something you have to asleep to believe it.
Hanging a 65″ flat screen in your tent.
That’s the new American dream.
A term coined by James Truslow Adams in 1931 that turned into American Nightmare ninety years later.
The promise that your children could live better than you now considered problematic by people whose children live in your basement with six figures in student debt.
A fairytale designed to make people obey, conform, overspend, work for nothing, and hope they can have everything they are promised.