American Dream

The poll numbers are looking up again. Last time I paid close attention to the poll numbers things were not looking as well as they probably should have, given the recent news of Sarah Palin.

Fortunately for anyone against McCain, the presumptions of his folly in selecting Sarah Palin are slowly turning out to be more and more true. Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish outlines several the the lies that Sarah Palin has been telling.

On the ground the story you hear is more of the same. The same tired rhetoric that has been injected into the minds of many a Republican voter, the racist, the anti-liberal economic agenda (which I have tried to dispel to no avail given the obvious ideological contradictions), and anti-abortion religionists. Try as you may you will never be able to break the fortifications these individuals have built up against fact.

It seems to me that more than anything it has become a question of identity. As Bauman has previously asserted with regards to information societies, we are living in times that require constant consumption and disposal of not only material goods, but the information that is constantly being circulated around us. Personally I find it very difficult to conceive an existence that consists solely of my house, cars, family, work, and church, all situated within a relatively confined community to which I am relegated. For most people this is still the American dream.