Changing things up...I don't want the Fake American Dream

Today I realized that this blog is not about anyone else but myself.   That means that I don't need to nor will I ever again place ads anywhere within this blog in hopes of making money from sharing my truth.  What this blog is really about is expressing my thoughts and feelings about the world.  Using what's available to me as a medium for expression is what is important, be it through writing, photography, videography, or anything else that I can get my hands on. The harsh truth of the matter is that the world has been commercialized over and over again, it infiltrates every part of our world.  Every page on the Internet is now at risk of becoming one big commercial for multi-national corporations to sell their wares.  Don't get me wrong I too sipped the cool-aid.  But the truth is that we all slip on the goggles of repression everyday when we reach for the "fake American Dream" of one day becoming one of those billionaires on the Forbes list of richest people.  Even as the reality of what this capitalist nation has done to its own people is ever more evident the so called "American Dream" is drowning American households in a murky pit of debt all in the hopes of living the lifestyles we see on network television and big production movies.  2010 could be known as the year of "Meaning over Money", maybe because we as a people finally reevaluated our lifestyles, and grasped for something more meaningful, but as we had a chance to look around ourselves and really take inventory all we could see was our over-mortgaged homes and a stack of credit card bills.  Maybe 2011 for me is going to be the year of "Truth over Fear".  Too many people myself included are afraid to do what makes them truly happy.  Instead we settle for being safe and comfortable.  And although those emotions have their place they should not take the place of other emotions either.  At some point in time we all need to feel the power of the unknown, we all need to finally look behind the curtain and see that the commercialized American dream is really just a facade.  That we create our own happiness not by becoming part of of the multi-nation industrial corporate complex nor by feeding it, but by self expression and participating in the world community through whatever means we choose.  In 2011 we all need to take a moral inventory and realize that the free market is really not free.  That abroad and within our own borders we are constantly fed destructive ingredients that create nothing more than extreme material wealth for a few and leave the majority with the yearning for something that we can't quite explain.  We think we know what it is as we are bombarded with brainwashing messages of success, but look behind the curtain and you will see only a few people reeping the rewards of the so called American Dream, while the majority struggles to repay the cost of trying to aspire to this dream, find adequate healthcare, and feed themselves in a healthy way.