lol... I am born here and raised here. "The American Dream" is an illusion. If you believe otherwise you are fooled by our propaganda. Wtf is the american dream? To waste all your days making the rich richer? To give away 40+ hours of your life a week to a garbage government that will take all you have worked for if they don't like you? Yes, this is the american dream. The fact is, they WANT YOU to come here and go through school, and be a good little gear in their capitalist machine.
The American dream is to freeload off a supermodel. Its been that way for years now. Everything we do in this society (especially if you work for a large corporation) is worthless and maybe even counter productive in the progression of the human race (as to how we exert ourselves).
(underline added.) I have to disagree. Most people do lots of worthwhile things. Sharing with friends, caring for our families, partying down with our buddies, these are all worthwhile things. We are more than our job and our shopping. The TV version of american life is a soulless round of work and consumption. The damage of that version is not that people follow it, but that they think that is the "important" stuff. Fortunatly, people continue to do the truely important stuff, like fixing boo boo's on a kid's knee or listening to a friend bitch over a beer.
I was being sarcastic. I also have a very depressing outlook on life sometimes depending on what mood I am in.
ok then, convicts and poor irishmen? what do you mean it's bullshit, are you trying to tell me that we didn't send convicts? its what i learnt in history... i'm not challenging your knowledge just want to know more
It's bullshit because they only tell you half the truth man. That's like a propaganda technique IMO. I wasn't trying to attack you or offend you anything like that, but that's all people ever say, the convicts. Never, the oppressed irishman who was so poor because of his oppressors snatched from his land and sent to australia. I'm sure this happened to other people that were ruled also, but I am Irish, and have been taught to be Irish since young.