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I just posted this on Ian's wall, and I thought I should make a blog of it.
I thought of the perfect role for me if I do decide to come to International Day. I'll come dressed as a hobo, and sleep under the table with newspapers covering my body.
Fits in with last year as well, since I was the successful business man living the American dream. The person that we are taught to aspire to. I guess it turns out that the American dream was just an advertising pitch. It was a right wing booth, and I was the embodiment of the success the right says everyone is capable of achieving.
This year we live in a blue state, and I become the cost of the American dream. Sure, many people have found it, but at what cost? Not everyone can afford home ownership. Not the people Americans can now buy cheap food from at Walmart. Maybe they could have before that giant corporation closed the store they owned. Perhaps I was one of the many who was promised a home with a mortgage I could afford.
Who could blame me? I had been taught that this was my goal in life. To own a home, to raise a family. Sure, I wasn't born rich and I wasn't particularity bright, but I was an American, this is what was owed to me!
Then the bubble popped, I lost my shitty job, and the bank foreclosed. Now I am homeless and I live under a table at the American Booth. A cost of those living this dream. A cost of those who teach us it is possible. And a cost of those who profit from continuing this lie.
But... maybe this is all too deep for a bunch of third graders. I'll just play it for laughs.
3 comments:
I wouldn't expect third graders to understand :P
I'm reading Watchmen, you remind me of a milder version of The Comedian. I don't imagine you shooting a pregnant woman carrying your child,
just the part where Nite Owl says "what happened to the american dream?" and The Comedian says "It came true."...similar ideas.
Markie,
I really hope that flies with the school. But I have doubts that it will. That could be construed as unpatriotic, even if it is true. Oh wait, isn't dissent unpatriotic? :)
I had to argue with someone last week that said the all too ignorant, if you don't like it, get out. So fun.
Haha, a much milder version of Comedian, I hope. He was also very right-wing, which I am not, obviously. Though, I do love that quote.
Sadly, I could not go to the America booth this year anyway, as I had finals. I know Ian and the rest of those patriots did a great job at keeping the dream alive.
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