Recent searches
Search options
#Steinbeck never said that Americans see themselves as #TemporarilyEmbarrassedMillionaires, but that misquotation is so pervasive because it captures something vital about one version of the #AmericanDream, the idea that anyone can make it in America by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, which means that if you *haven't* made it, it's because of some defect within you, and not because of a rigged system:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Disputed
/1
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/10/declaration-of-interdependence/#solidarity-forever
2/
pluralistic.netPluralistic: Alissa Quart’s ‘Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream’ (10 Apr 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow