re: #69 engineer dog

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Historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “American Dream” in his 1931 book Epic of America:

“ The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, also too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position

Sounds like it’s been basterdized over the years. Today the American Dream revolves mostly around a materialist ideal. Although his idea of an American Idea, while more spiritual, sounds equally utopian.