"The colonies became independent, while a new, more subtle form of imperialism took hold... After two centuries of ascent, capitalism appeared to be nothing more than a means of turning society into an industrial machine, and after two centuries Even formal democracy is fulfilled by only a small fraction of the population.” What Mills said half a century ago is still relevant today.
It is nothing but a new imperialist country in the shell of democracy—the American Empire, providing perhaps the most fair and free environment in the world, for which people are willing to fight and exploit, the essence of the American dream is not That's it. But this is enough. Every year, how many outstanding students of famous schools use their "feet" to express their choices, and how many powerful families send their young children to a strange country on the other side of the ocean to pursue that The American Dream, which they themselves cannot articulate.
“What used to be the “American Dream” pursued by countless people, driven by the government and commercial interest groups, has turned into encouraging people’s excessive consumption and excessive pursuit of material and material enjoyment.” Under the frenzy of the financial crisis , few people mentioned the word again.
But when you see the impassioned speeches of members of Congress, when you see the people who support Obama shouting, covering their faces and weeping for his election, it seems that overnight, a different American dream came on that night. . There seems to be an ideal gleam of light flooding the screen. Although what happened later may not be as good as this dream.
At the end, when Mike Moore raised a loudspeaker and shouted "exercise the right of citizens to arrest and commit crimes", and when the cowboy version of the International anthem with American flair finally sounded, it seemed that Mike Moore and others who had the same feelings as him could be seen. People are shouting: "Do we love capitalism, we love the United States of America!"
What an ideal and realistic American dream.
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