The American Dream?

The core of the rot that permeates our society is the deep sense of purposelessness generated by the American Dream. Our social instability is caused by a steady erosion of standards and values.

Sadly, we are guilty of foreclosing our own future... Our landscape, our environment, our society as a whole has little sense of value for the community and/or very few of us have the innate civic responsibility to maintain the connectedness of our neighborhoods...

We (as Americans) are conditioned to live in a wasteland of sprawlscape with little sense of hometown pride and are rarely nurtured to develop a quiet yet sincere bond with our local community..

Everybody is out for himself... There is no one to lookup to anymore! CEOs steal millions on a daily basis (and little see real jail time); political leaders lie through their teeth; small town cohesiveness is constantly being destroyed by big box retailers and short-lived ugly strip malls [http://www.deadmalls.com/]; while music and the arts are delegated to a remote dusty corner of "dubious social value" in our education system.

Meanwhile, slimeballs rise to the top, honest hardworking citizens are outsourced, displaced (law of eminent domain) and relegated to menial labor (or worse) just to survive...