Saturday, March 3, 2007

The Disillusions, pt. 2 - a random sampling

"I always thought of the American dream as disillusionment, but nevertheless an inevitable pursuit by both citizens and immigrants of America." -a college student

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning ——
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -a novelist

"Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table about haircuts, getting jobs and the American dream? Well, our parents won. They're out living the American dream on some damned golf course in Vero Beach, and we're stuck with the jobs and haircuts." -a comedian

"I'm speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of a victim. I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare." -an activist

"...and rose incarnate in the ghostly clothes of jazz in the goldhorn shadow of the band and blew the suffering of America's naked mind for love into an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities down to the last radio..." -a poet

"When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it." -a journalist

"The dream is over." -a musician

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