What is the current state of the American Dream?

Each generation or decade has redefined the American Dream. What do you think is the current condition of the American Dream? What do we as a country or as individuals aspire to? Is it time for an upgrade?

Who are the characters that inhabit the American Dream?

Who are the characters, historical, fictional or iconographic that represent the American Dream?

What is the music of the American Dream?

What songs, compositions or artists reflects aspects of the American Dream?

What are the symbols of the American Dream?

What are the symbols that represent American Dream - both the positive aspirations and critical problems. Here are some of mine:

White Pickett fence
T.V. Dinners
The V-8 engine
Indian Casinos
The Family Farm
The Soup Kitchen
Community College

What is the future of the American Dream?

The United States of America is in crisis. We are politically divided and seemingly incapable of dialogue. Our banking system has failed us. We have outsourced our manufacturing base - our only remaining successful industry is the manufacture if weapons. Our education system ranks in the middle of the industrialized nations. We have been dumbed-down by corporate new/entertainment media. 1% of our population owns 90% of our wealth.

What great vision for our future can inspire us?