I came a cross an article on blog.wired.com which states no more or
less that the American Dream is a biological impossibility?
What does it mean?
It means that biologically speaking we’re not fit for the dream.
What is the dream? In the own words of Peter Whybrow, head of the
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior at UCLA: “We’ve been
taught, especially in America, that happiness will be at the end of
some sort of material road, where we have lots and lots of things
that we want”.
That wouldn’t be that bad, except the part where biology kicks in:
“Our built-in dopamine-reward system makes instant gratification
highly desirable, and the future difficult to balance with the
present.”
So the problem is with what people perceive that would make them
happy and the difficulty or perceiving the real consequences of
getting something now instead of saving money and getting it
later.
You can find the whole “disturbing” article here:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/american-dream.html
The conclusion reached are pretty bleak but there is always hope
and answers can be found if creative thinking takes place and there
is a will to change.
Apart from that I think thatthe real American Dream(and as a
matter of fact