The American Dream

[Otto]

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2015-04-21 15:56 GMT+02:00 jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>:
> That question is rhetorical, right?
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> 2015-04-21 15:44 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
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>> Why isn't that last sentence as oft-quoted as the famous Amer Dream
>> sentence at the End of Gatsby?
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>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:00 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > "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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