All man kind was blessed or cursed with dreams, depending on your perspective. Whether he be a king, a prince, a princess, freeman, surf or slave. Some dreams are attainable and some are not, some should be pursued and some not. Some are realistic, and some are fantasies. Can a child dream of being a magical fairy and truly believe it can be, of course, but there comes a time to put away childish dreams, and to a point most of us do, unless hope is given, that the dream could be possible by some one of great wisdom and trust. In the case of the child it could be the parent, a loving aunt, or a trusted friend, but in the case of an adult who could possibly have such power ?
In the pre European days of America, the inhabitants, for the most part lived the true dream, the obtainable every day dream. They had homes, and many had winter and summer homes, they hunted, fished, raised their children, enjoyed generations of close family and a basically free life. They worked hard enough to provide food shelter and some comforts to them selves and their families, and spent the rest of their time enjoying the wonders of the earth and the freedom to do so.
The european on the other hand was taught over hundreds of years to pursue the generally unobtainable dream. Kings dreamed of ruling the world, the princesses dreamed of being queens, a lord of becoming a prince, and a surf of being a freeman upon his own land, spending their lives chasing the carrot on the stick put before them by those who ruled them.
This brings us to that ever elusive "American Dream". Up until the nineteen fifties, the dream was not an illusion, it was obtainable to most. You worked hard and a dollar was paid for a dollar earned, and a dollar bought what a dollar should. My parents bought their first home and 5 A of land for $1500 paid off in a year. I bought my first car for $25 earned over the entire summer. We had a huge garden a big cellar full of food, we had kites, bicycles, ball games, picnics, the 25 cent movies on Saturday night where you couldn't spend a dollar no mater how hard you tried, we lived the American dream.
All of this was shortly after the second world war. Most think the NAZI machine was ground to a deathly halt in Berlin, and to a degree it did, but something much more sinister survived that war and lived and grew to enslave the world,, killing to this day, including the "American Dream".
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