Overview
- Waste is wealth yet realized
Modern day politics
- Politicians exudes at appeal designed to push the emotional button of the broadest voter base imaginable
- actual plan not as memorable as the performance dimension of the campaign
Trump versus Obama
- Racial pedigree undercut intellectual pedigree
- meritocracy - as an idea
only 32.5% of Americans graduated from college
- majority are closed off from this ladder
- resentment brewing
Phase 1
- James town failed experiment
input
veteran soldiers + convict
- women
- cattle
- expected output
stable agrarian community
- class division between land owner versus servants widen
Puritans - see class as a form of security
- White slave owners alienated white non-slave owners
- reinforced by bloodlines and hereditary transmissions
love of liberty and racial exclusivity are ideas passed down
- Thomas Jefferson
Anglo-Saxon Americans racial stock superior
- to outbreed all other races
- fascination with bloodlines
- Hamond
Every advanced society had to exploit its petty laborers
- Allowing the forming of recognized elites
**roaring 1920s **
- Social exclusiveness masked as science and disdain for rural backwardness
1930s
- trailers
contradictory symbolism
freedom versus rootless with not privacy
- liberty's dark side: deviant dystopian wastelands on the fringe of the metropolis
- permanent housing seem as slums
1940s
- Voters expect huge disparities in wealth but cultivate appear of being no different from the rest of us
- Hillbillies
- Malcolm X
- symbolism of class hierarchy turned upside down
Elvis
1980s
- ethnic identity
Cracker - to flee and start else where
- Redneck - hardworking, fun-loving and independent
- HillBilly
- Choices people make are both class and gender charged
- Many people remained trapped in the poverty they are born into
- The American dream is a double edged sword
able people carve out their own destiny
- not condemn those who get stuck between the cracks
1990s
- Bill Clinton
southerner president
- embodiment of the American dream
External references
- *To kill a mockingbird*
- *The Beans of Egypt*, Chute