The American Dream: Unaccountability

Let's say I offer you the following scenario:

"You are allowed to walk into any store, anywhere, at any time during it's operation and take whatever you want off any rack and then, walk right out of the store with it. You can eat whatever you want, whenever you want. Go anywhere you wish, for whatever reason. Sleep with whoever you want, whether they want to sleep with you or not and with as many of those people as you want to. Kill anyone, take property from anyone and commit whatever act on whatever person for as long as your heart desires. All of this with no repercussions, no reprisals and no responsibilities."

Now, it may sound like I am offering the impossible, but it is a reality for some and the dream of others. It is the REAL American dream. It is what we are all striving for and what we cling frivolously to on a daily basis. The only difference is that we use a tangible substance to antiquate this fantasy. We call this substance money and it is the justifiable tool to the REAL dream.

The reason I am mentioning this is because a lot of people try to dress up true desires with socially acceptable norms in order to hide behind the reality of their base instincts. This repression creates a society so misguided and unfocused, that we are in constant flux in the lower rungs, while the top rung maintains without interference. The truth is this, say what you want, then go get it. If you know the truth, then their is direction.

Money is meaningless if you look at the actual goals of people. People covet property, power, status and other people. Money is only the tool that allows that.

If I said: "I want that car." That is true

If I said: "I want that person." That is true

If I said: "I want that person dead/ destroyed." That is true

If I said: "I want the money to do what I want when I want." That is half lie lie

If I said: "I want financial freedom." That is a full lie



The true statement for the two lies above is simple: "I want to do what I want." Period.

Money creates these buffer zones around opinion to help garner approval from our society. To want to be able to act without recourse or accountability is upsetting, but the desire for the finances that allow you to do so is warranted and appreciated.

Simply adding the term "buy" or "purchase" is a moral suffix to our most base desires. "I want all of these clothes," is selfish but "I want to have the money to buy all of these clothes," is acceptable while "I want to earn the money to buy all of these clothes," is noble. The reasoning is that we have layered on the bias that pure want is bad, desiring the tool to want is normal and desiring the work to gain the tool is good. However, the subject is the same, we just layer norms on top of it to justify our concerns. In the end, though, what we really want, is the clothes, how we come about them is no longer important.

The desire to earn is a thing of the past especially when society is dumping money into the void of imaginary products and services like never before (a topic for another time). In the end, most people are simply looking for the end product: Freedom to act without consequence. The rest is just veils to hide the intention.

Let's take something that is a more morally reprehensible and draw it out with this same series of layers.

If I said: "I want to rape her." That would be true.

If I said: "I want to be rich enough to fuck any girl whether they wanted me too or not and get away with it!" That would be half true.

If I said: "I want to hold an office that supplied me with enough status, capital and power that I would be able to impose my will upon others. Then, the result of that, would be justified either through legal, financial or covert means and thus lengthened from my daily sphere as to not effect my daily activity." That would be a lie.

They are all the same, however, through this course of logic, we continue to bury the basic desire under more and more social diatribe to block out the intention: Rape.

The complication comes in the fact that we build this rhetoric on our desires so much that we then hide the reality of it by simply lopping off the keywords or phrases to illuminate our actual intentions.

"I want to hold an office that supplies me with status, capital and power."

This is what we boil it down to. We accept the want for office, status, capital and power. The underline principle is that the winners know the why, everyone else does not.

Pushing aside the moral compass, let's just break it down on a platform that equates with most people.

"I want a job." False.

"I want the money from that job." Closer

"I want to pay rent with that money so I have a place to live." Closer

"I want to live in a place that I like, paid for by the money I get from the job." Closer

"I want to live in a nice place." True.



Here is another:

"I want financial freedom." False

"I want money to be able to buy what I want." False

"I want to buy stuff." Closer

"I want stuff." True


This may seem like common sense to most people, yet it is the common cause of most frustrations amongst the lower class. The reason we have criminals is not because they have desires that fall outside that of society, it is because they don't follow our "monetized" rules on how to obtain them. You kill someone with you bare hands when you are poor, then you go to jail. You kill someone using money, then you walk away. The reason the country is in so much trouble is that people act in the manner of the rich before they are rich. Taking, forcing and acting without the financial shield. For that, they are punished. That is the plan.

To covet is necessity. We can not function without that principle. It is the confusion that separates us. We dress above where we are, we buy above what we can afford, we do things we shouldn't be doing and acting ways we shouldn't and we all dance merrily to it. Advertisers show all the potential of status with our products. The guy using the Ipad isn't crammed in an office, tired and bent over the product drilling away at work and responsibilities that the device allows him to complete. The guy is lounging on a couch, in his pristine living room, with his feet up on his $5000 couch, leisurely skimming through the latest reports on his off-shore financial holding. Yet 90% of the people who are buying Ipads are putting them on their credit cards.

The separation lies in acknowledgment of the ultimate goal. So the remedy lies not in the befuddlement of moral obligation, but in the reality of your personal nature.

You want money to fuck beautiful women. Then say, "I do (whatever) TO FUCK BEAUTIFUL WOMEN."

You want money to buy whatever you want. Then say, "I want whatever I want."

You want money to kill enemies. Then say, "I want to kill."

Take a moment to drill down. Push out what you think is "bad" or "wrong" or "politically correct" (or not) and dig into that base desire. You may find out that you have added so many veils that you can't even determine what it is you want anymore. Which leads us full circle:

I don't know what I want, I just want it all!

This is the hope of the upper class. This is the floundering "dream" that keeps many under the thumb of the few. Because whether the final intention is considered "good," or "evil" or "socially responsible" or "morally reprehensible" the winners always know what they want in it's most base form. It's the confused that cloud it.

The reason the rich veil their desires is because they are hiding it from you. You veil it, because you don't understand what it really is. So find out. Appreciate it. Leave morality and ethics out of it. Just know it and repeat it to yourself. Then you can plan it. Then, hopefully, you will one day accomplish.