“If we aren’t being taught how to grow our own food, how to take care of ourselves and our families, how to live without the need for huge governments, banks, and corporations - as our ancestors once did - then we aren’t being educated; we’re being indoctrinated to be dependent and subservient to the system.” - Gavin Nascimento
The “America Dream” means a lot of things to different people. But historically speaking, the American Dream meant creating your own self-sufficient life with little/no 3rd party intervention. But over the past century and a half, the foundation of the dream to create a space to live freely has turned into us becoming trapped in the hamster wheel of the corporate America machine with less time to invest our individual selves and personal needs.