"The average guy don't rock the boat cause he wants to climb abord it. ... They don't care who the losers are. They want to know who won. ... You are not sleeping. You're wide awake. And this is the American Dream."
"So many hotels. You can't see the sea."
"You can see the sea by checking into the hotels."
"Pay to see the sea ?"
"What's the matter with that? You are paying to be in the dream. There is a thin veneer, Kemp, between the dream and the reality. You wake them up and the people might start aksing for their money back."
Average people get the average view. This is what material society can give you.
It can ensure that an ordinary person can meet ordinary material standards at a reasonable price, but it limits a huge cost for realizing the ideal.
"
And you pay to see your "dream".
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