The American Dream

[David Morris]

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was
worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely
inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created.
Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if
they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved
henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for
committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American
dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of
cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, *God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater*, 1965
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