Xavier said:
Go to college run up $200,000 in debts and loans
get a $80,000 job
get a $300,000 mortgage
get married
get $50,000 in automaotive financing
have 2.2 kids
run up $70,000 in credit card bills
work the rest of your life to pay off your bills , try to save for you childerens college fund and work towards retirement at 65 .
...OR you could forget college after graduating senior high, get whatever education you need from the "higher learning" POV by reading and absorbing what you need at your leisure... and storm ride your fuckin' way through 90% of your life with the last 10% spent on
contingency backup plans, set up drop boxes with at least $1,800 a gun and a box of ammo here and there, and enjoy your life. Eventually you'll run into an open minded woman who wants to feel the lighting crack as you ride, diggin' you for the "Sporadic" wanderer you are, see just as much of the planet {or country} as the richie rich types, only not $BLINGin' it, or you very well might. *You might spend some nights under a bridge at some point, and at another have the contacts you need to drive around in a super car and jet set with the best of the best.
...bottom line is that what you posted IS NOT the American Dream, that's the bullshit the media and the institutions of education {Public School anyway} have fed to the masses after they strip the individuality from a child, tell them what can and cannot be done, and churn out the said {read your American Dream Quote} person into an economically viable citizen who is not really prepared nor educated to "Survive" in this world, but is a spoke on some politicians wheel, and by the time you get to the middle part of your break down you just stop caring and have joined the other blue hairs in further destroying any dreams your child might have because 8 out of 10 people forget "The fire" of life.
so there
IS an alternative, but it's a hard road with no gaurantees, but the examined life from the ground up is the best way to know the score. You can eat the bullshit or you can buck the system and piss off the collective majority who wants to be that way but don't have the balls to. LIVE FOR TODAY because tomorrow you might be dead, then you'll be in a world of shit.
MERCENARY X99 