The American dream is like the pony express. It was the product of a great many particular circumstances. It did once exist, for a handful of people in a few chosen places, but disappeared before anyone realized. It's a romantic ideal more important as fiction than practical reality. It is something to be talked about, not something that ever actually happens. So it is no more dead today than ever because it wasn't never really alive in the first place.
Just for perspective for those unfamiliar with what short a period the Pony Express[1] actually operated its 2000 mile long, 184 station mail delivery system: it started in April 3 1860 and ended October 24, 1861.
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The American dream is like the pony express. It was the product of a great many particular circumstances. It did once exist, for a handful of people in a few chosen places, but disappeared before anyone realized. It's a romantic ideal more important as fiction than practical reality. It is something to be talked about, not something that ever actually happens. So it is no more dead today than ever because it wasn't never really alive in the first place.
Just for perspective for those unfamiliar with what short a period the Pony Express[1] actually operated its 2000 mile long, 184 station mail delivery system: it started in April 3 1860 and ended October 24, 1861.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express