The cloying, fantasized destination of success, a land of privilege and excess, endless opportunity and freedom; the essence, in abundance, of the american dream. The foundation of our country is built on "American" beliefs and idealism- but often, when I think of the 'American dream', I think of the falsity of American idealism, and the ugly roots that emerge from that tainted soil. The ideals themselves, distorted and rooted in disillusionment, have been made to be barriers to ‘The Dream’, obscuring the decayed roots of prejudice and inequality; like a bad tooth, it will infect everything around it. And so I hope, one day, to progress from this misconstrued idea of the “American Dream”, to rise above primitive and erred roots, and grow into something better.
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