The death of the american dream

topic posted Wed, May 7, 2008 - 11:06 AM by  Gianpaolo
In the last century when in the states existed a contestation of the global society and the autorities were more tolerant,the states were enimerated like one of the more democratic country of the world.The young people read Allen Ginsberg,Jack Kerouak,Timoty Leary and listened american music because they felt a cultural symbiosis with the american youth in spite of the worldwide criminal politic of the american establishment.Today is changed,no one say something of good about america and the americans in Europe and in the rest of theworld is worst,specially in the islamic countries america and americans are demonized as the greta satan.American dream is vanished as the big illusion of last century the communism.Perhaps I've been one of the last to speak bad about america because my grandmother was from NYC.Moreover the media brainwash the people worldwide with false images of the states,depicting this country as one in vanguard about ecology,healthcare and sociability.Well I was fascinated about all this.having had serious problems in my country; watch my blog on "My space.com"link Gianpaolo Mazzarella!I decided to come in the states,and my intention was to ask for political asylum in order to change nationality.My first stage was NYC,at that time I was a solidarity simpathizer.From my first days in Nyc I perceived that something was not working,I felt myself completely marginated,every attempt to meet some solidarity comrade vain.I spent some week to see the best NYC museums and then I went to California were I hoped to find more regard.I've been cited in a Jefferson Airplane song in the 90s and pubblished a letter over Kick it over magazine in Toronto and during the BDB insurretion in California a lot of episodes concerning my live and all the injustice I had to undergo in the past with some friends of mine came in light to show how much the american establishment was involved in the international fascistization.But in LA I still felt myself marginated and more robbed and demonized and feeling many hostilities,but these hostilities came not from police or rightists,in Ponza island where i work in summer that is near Gaeta Navy base,before to come in the states being my intention to damage nobody I asked the permit to come in the states.Those people have been very kind I have received provocations and in San Diego I was able to smoke marijuana freely,however I'm cardiopatic after years of injustices bullets and sexual abuses in my country.In San Diego the people was more friendly I had a nice feeling about hte people there.The last day of the year came I was at Obi hostel in Ocean beach,the people at reception just said me that I had to leave because I smoked a spinel in the bathroom,some teenagers had to go as well because they played a little bit loud their cassettes under the threat to call the sheriff.This was the thing that gave me more bitterness,to see how much some people were fascists in a country that before I thought democratic.Betraying of Solidarity ecosocialists apart I noticed the lack of an effort to sensitize the public opinion about city problems as the particulate or other problems that in Europe are normally faced like the recycling.In Venice beach La,that once was the place where Jack kerouak lived,I've never found anything of alternative,just false psychical readers and tarot readers and nonsensetrifles sellers with aflcio revolution mystifiers.Also walk in the street was quite boring at every corner a tyrannosaurus rex.Now I'm still in Italywith my usual economic problems that are perhaps worst than before but lukily I don't live in America.Perhaps some hostility came from my personal opinion about the Iraq war.I don't like any war but as I have testified the need of an action in Jugoslavia against the Milosevic massacrees I think that Iraq was in need of an action against the scithians,curds and political oppositions Sadam massacrees.I know that the usual kill for peace has fattened the war economy and has been a trick to raise the oil prices provokig also a big trauma to democracy.But there has been someone proposing to get rid of cars or someone proposing to get rid of plastic bugs?Just someone proposing to use paper bags to favour wood mafia or use ethanol to give more famine to the poor countries.And I don't want speak of the lack of public transportation.I've been in Ynio county,in Ridgecrest were I have appreciated the moral beautifulness of its inhabitants.But I've been three days in a motel because there weren't buses and taxis at allI think that the american dream like the italian dream will continue to die because nobody has the volutee to displace the bascula needle in a democratic sense.
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Gianpaolo
Los Angeles
  • Re: The death of the american dream

    Thu, May 8, 2008 - 4:02 PM
    The American dream, is a very intangible concept?
    The little house on main st? Equality of oportunity based on your own merit,
    or maybe to many of the younger people from our Southern neighbor, free healthcare and better pay, as long as your fake ID works.
    When everybody else starts fleeing from America, instead of twords it, the American " dream " may be dead.
    The pop culture of the 60's is also a poor yardstick to measure current American social, political and economic change by , too.
    • Re: The death of the american dream

      Thu, May 8, 2008 - 4:54 PM
      It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
      • Re: The death of the american dream

        Fri, May 9, 2008 - 5:23 PM
        True, but the grass is greener on the ohter side of the hill is an endemic state of mind, it's easier to shoot for than trying to till the land and and grow the grass where your are.
        A lot of people grow grass in America don't you know?
        I like to mow it down , every week or so.
      • Re: The death of the american dream

        Sat, May 10, 2008 - 12:33 PM
        To say that the american dream is a term for sleepers is a falsehood because even when it had individualistic burgeois concepts it grew over a contestation substratum dominated principally from rock music.Who doesn't remember the Jim Morrison words"West is the best"?And he was really true because at those times the communists countries were just fascists regimes and we had still the hope of an illusion.The sectarian ideologies have always destroyed every attempt to liberation.What should be the Zapatist experience if it had not the support of various ideologies that identify themself in the Chiapas population and the anarcosinacalism?The same Max Stirner a true mind in the libertarian world had to say words of appreciation about Bettina however contesting his world.The psycoanalisis of the fascism from Reich is always actual and it's bringing to biopaty a large part of the masses.The globalization is just doing the rest.
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          Sat, May 10, 2008 - 2:23 PM
          What BS! Does this represent the most profound logic and reasoning of the progressive thinking of our salvation?
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            Sun, May 11, 2008 - 6:17 AM
            The "Golden nugget mania"pervading many native nations has been good to resolve economic problems in a society where is no more possible to live of wild rice and hunt.However it has had its pro and counter because,and this is quite odd in this moment,has provoked hatred like the last between Peshanga and Paulette Hunter and Luisienos.I prefer for my own the Lakota resolution that I consider wiser.
            • Re: The death of the american dream

              Sun, May 11, 2008 - 9:10 AM
              ..............this cat is using his mind, best efforts at (american) english and throwing a few perspectives out that, as challenging to wade through as it is for me, is from a place most of us haven't spent time in.........
              • Re: The death of the american dream

                Sun, May 11, 2008 - 9:13 AM
                .......that said, the 'dream' can still be had microscale--like Appalachia, circa 1800.
                • Re: The death of the american dream

                  Mon, May 12, 2008 - 5:13 PM
                  I saw a segment on pbs news about some massively dead steel/rust belt town in PA that has a new , fast growing "green " economy, people are moving there to start green business and the mayor lives in an old wharehouse.
                  Freaks inhabiting the rusted giant relics of our dead industrial era? Starting their own underground/ really more sideways economic ventures? Abnsolutely no city hall to stand in the way?
                  Almost , dare i wisper, dare I shout , " ANARCHY ", In the USA.
                  I may just be deperate, but seeing folks making something out of the hulking relics of the mill cultures that have fallen like all great old trees that cannot bend in the wind, wakens brave Helios and the Suns rays of a new tommorrow really do strike an anvil of the futures blacksmiths .
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                    Re: The death of the american dream

                    Sat, May 17, 2008 - 1:44 PM
                    I remember with enormous simpaty the organic street stalls in Santa Monica,as those in San Diego with organic products and the artisans the rockbands all undergoing to a true oppression in areas that declare to be against the big trusts.I wish for americans the anarchy but I don't see a prerivolutionarian era just a prefascist era.