Good morning:
When I woke up this morning into that no longer asleep-- not quite awake state, I had an ah-ha experience, one of those thoughts that, as soon as I had it, I knew it was right.
What was it? Well, it's really simple, as most of those kinds of thoughts are. And it rhymes. Though if that's what makes it seem to right, I don't know.
Anyway, here it is. DOCTOR DEAN, THE AMERICAN DREAM!
Doesn't surprise you does it? But you may be asking yourself what does it mean?
Doctor Dean is the American Dream. How so? Well, he embodies it; in the sense that the American Dream is the potential of great wealth and fortune and the satisfaction of doing with less. Doctor Dean embodies the American Dream because he could have had great material wealth, was born into the right circumstance to attain it with lots of help from his friends, but decided he didn't need it and could be satisfied with having less.
Isn't that what we all want? The opportunity to succeed and the ability to decide when we've achieved all that we really need.
Unfortunately, that dream isn't shared by everyone. There are an awful lot of people for whom wealth and success are so wrapped up together that they never get enough. They never derive any satisfaction from their striving. They exist in a state of perpetual deprivation, perhaps growing out of envy of what anyone else has.
That's sad because not only are these people never satisfied, all of their striving only serves to deprive others of what they have achieved.
I don't know if you'd call these rapacious people evil. It's possible they don't mean to covet what others have. Maybe they're just hostage to the predatory instinct which moves the fox to the chase, whenever a scared rabbit runs off, regardless of whether he's hungry or not.
Whatever the explanation and whatever sets them off, predatory humans have to be stopped just because their appetites are never satisfied. And, unfortunately, it's probably going to take more than the American Dream to do it. It's going to take a lot of hard work and it's going to mean that we have to set some of our satisfactions aside for a time so they won't be taken from us entirely. Because human predators can't be satisfied with things they are a threat to life and liberty itself.