The evolving “American Dream”

This morning, our beloved National Public Radio (NPR) was announcing an upcoming series about the ailing American Dream. To me, this concept is just an image whose time has past. It was initially fostered by an immense land, taken away from the American Indians, where there were no rules and in which expansion was the name of the game.

Later on, it kept on fueling its legend on international expansion and today, there seem to be no more room for it to grow into. Perhaps, we should look into our society and envision more progress in terms of education, health care and scientific research that could lead to a more sustainable living.

This to me is a logical segue-way to the American Dream. There is one point I'd like to make though, “American” has become a bit too parochial as well as limiting, and I would love to substitute the world “Planetary” instead, so that dream of betterment is available to all humans...