The American Dream

The American Dream can be defined as the belief that anyone in America can achieve success. But the truth is that the American people are gradually losing their availability to success. It’s becoming more and more challenging for fresh college graduates to get their dream job with America’s current economic state. Not only that, but the generation America is entering is simply too dependent on electronics, perhaps to a point where survival will practically be impossible without them. These factors contribute to the decline in the newest generation’s ability to achieve the “American Dream.”

As America continues to age throughout the early years of the 21^st century, its economic state goes trough recession. This recession in the American economy has caused a decrease in jobs, making occupations harder to come by. Because it’s so difficult to find a job nowadays, many older generation employees have occupied many different workspaces, including those that fresh college graduates wish to occupy. This makes it harder for the latest generation to aim high when job hunting.

In the new American generation, electronics are sold almost anywhere, and can be found in practically every household. This new age has grown dependent on the use of electronics, and electronics haven’t ceased to consume the minds and lives of Americans. In hi article “Is The Onslaught Making Us Crazy?,” Tony Dokoupil shows an example of how electronics have consumed Americans by informing the reader of Jason Russell, an ordinary man that suddenly went temporarily insane over online social media. The newer generation has grown addicted to the latest technology, perhaps even more than Russell. This addiction has contributed to their inability to achieve the American Dream.

Success has become almost unimaginable for the oncoming generation. As someone from the latest generation, I realize that my success will seem much harder to achieve when compared to how my parents succeeded. In addition to this, I, along with many others my age, am also incredibly depended on the use of electronics. For many, electronics also equal to educational handicaps.

Before, the American Dream was something many were able to strive to achieve. Now, it is becoming exactly what it is: just a dream. Eventually the oncoming generations will become so jobless and dependent that the American Dream will practically be impossible to achieve. However, although the situation for the current generation seems bad, the situation for oncoming generations almost seems unimaginably terrifying.