The 21st Century American Dream

To be an American in the twenty-first century... Americans now have everything in excess and accessible at the tips of their fingers. We have been a super power since the end of the second world war. All this time at the top is starting to go our heads. We have slowly become more and more accustomed to not working for our spot at the top. Along with an incredible influx of technology and electronics has coupled to form a monster. We are becoming more and more lazy. In a world when an apple costs a dollar and a box of twinkies costs 1.29, we are turning away from the ways of the past or the healthy, the way we got to the top, for convenience. In our laziness we are become faceless as well. There is very little face to face contact anymore. Social networks and texting have taken over as forms of communication. I believe be doing this we are merging even more so as the melting pot of the world. We are all faceless. As we continue to drift apart by not speaking face to face, we drift closer as no discrimination can be performed by faceless words on a page. Everyone is gaining more access to the American Dream. If you don't have these forms of communication you may miss out on this dream, but I believe we are moving closer to world where money, race, gender all cease to make a difference. In this sense no one is held back from reaching "the Dream."