“It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
George Carlin, American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and social critic
Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.
One-Liner Wednesday — The American Dream
This, That, and the Other 
I had a feeling that you would share this exact quote.
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It reminds me of a Jewish preacher who marveled at Dream Works,
that we’re so into believing things that aren’t true. I heard’m right after
he had come back from overseas and was complaining about a country
that couldn’t even get it together to have stop lights – right before he died.
I wondered if he would have led some people to stop being anti-government…
in the sense that socialism, gettin together to do good, would be acceptable now.
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‘Meanwhile in Congress, lawmakers are advancing legislation that could give Amazon new tax breaks and give $10 billion to company founder Jeff Bezos’s space company.’ [This after Amazon was just in May awarded a $10 billion dollar government contract (a renewal despite not living up to terms).]
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My new hero author and scholar – Heather Cox Richardson
on “How the South Won the Ciil War”
(Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for
the Soul of America – Oxford University Press, 2020)
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Failure Trump Candidate Panders To
His Racist Voters By Attacking Stacey Abrams
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Jun 6 2022 Davos is back! And now Klaus Schwab and the WEF want kids to learn [with the hook that it’s …] about curbing climate change…. in the metaverse[*]! So, what are the WEF up to now, and how dangerous could their central role in the Metaverse be? …
* Facebook expanded
There’s a strange statement about children currently being “reliant” on textbooks, notebooks, and pencils — that causes me to think outside of their herding or attempt to coral thought and false hope — of slaves and women being denied useful understanding plus skills of agency and autonomy. The powerful will be fine if subjugation isn’t confined to people of color, just so long as there are the class divides and there is systemic control.
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Very apt 🙁
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