Up against the wall mother... of invention
The American Dream is based on the extraordinary idea/fantasy/vision of an endless horizon, of unlimited possibility, of infinite social mobility, of ceaseless, all solving invention, a place where everyone has/had a chance at "the Diamond as Big as the Ritz".
This vision explains the unique phenomenon of a country where simultaneously the word "elitist" is an insult and the wealthy and the famous are worshiped.
However the dream has its cut-in-stone rules, its iron logic. Those rules, that logic are being violated.
My daddy taught meThere is hell to pay.
In this county everyone's the same
You work hard for your dollar
And you never pass the blame
When it don't go your way
Now I see all these big shots
Whining on my evening news
About how their losing billions
And it's up to me and you
To come running to the rescue
"Shutting Detroit Down" - John Rich
