The American Dream

Much has been made of the ‘American Dream’ without anyone ever talking about what it really means. The picture of the big house on a quiet lane with a white picket fence, I suppose, is the more generic notion of what the American Dream means. But if the American Dream is merely the collection of things, it would have to be the shallowest of all notions. For it to have any inherent value, it seems it would have to consist of much more than that.

I’ve heard mention of the American Dream all my life, and most of the time, honestly, it was spoken of in terms of owning your own home. That’s a great goal. Nothing wrong with that. But assuming that’s the case, the mere lack of mention of this by the Founding Fathers in any of this Nation’s early documents seems a bit curious. There was no statement like ‘…life, liberty, and the prettiest little home of your choosing’. It seems—-and I hope it’s the case—that they were aiming much higher, much broader—speaking to the heart of the purest desires of every human being. They were speaking to a notion that resonated to our core, founding a nation on it, and knowing that a nation which adhered to such an ideal could never be shaken.

But It seems the term itself has been co-opted as a statement of some form of patriotic duty. Instead of a founding principle, it’s become a tagline or an advertising slogan. Make it sound noble without being truly noble. It’s become a selling point that might make the Association of Realtors drool, but doesn’t truly inspire. If we were to reduce it down to the ownership of a few lengths of lumber, energy efficient glass, and asphalt shingles, it hardly seems the reason for countless foreigners to migrate here over the past 200 years. While it can be a part of all our dreams, it can’t be the whole. For you can’t make only the part the whole of anything. But it seems that if they were to make the trip—many at risk of their own lives, and certainly what the founding generation risked their own lives for—they were risking it for something much more fundamental.

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The American Dream is—at it’s core and more broadly speaking—the human dream. The reason this American Dream resonates is because it aspires to something greater. It compels us to be be better—to do better. I feel as though I’m living the American Dream, even though I’m on the most bottom rung of all city dwellers—a mere renter. I understand what this Country means. And I understand it’s the most noble of ideals. And noble ideals are worth defending.

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