{"id":21271,"date":"2016-06-25T13:52:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T18:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21271"},"modified":"2016-06-25T13:52:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T18:52:27","slug":"globalization-and-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21271","title":{"rendered":"Globalization and the American Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Globalization and the American Dream<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\u201c\u2026 America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being \u2013 confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented \u2013 is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dinesh D\u2019Souza,\u00a0What\u2019s So Great About America<\/em><\/p>\n

Implicit in all the rhetoric promoting globalization is the premise that the rest of the world can and should be brought up to the standard of living of the West, and America in particular. For much of the world the American Dream \u2013 though a constantly moving target \u2013 is globalization\u2019s ultimate endpoint.<\/p>\n

But if this is the direction globalization is taking the world, it is worth examining where America itself is headed. A good way to do so is to take a hard look at America\u2019s children, since so many features of the global monoculture have been in place their whole lives. If the American Dream isn\u2019t working for them, why should anyone, anywhere, believe it will work for their own children?<\/p>\n

As it turns out, children in the US are far from \u201cconfident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, and future-oriented\u201d. One indication of this is that more than 8.3 million American children and adolescents require psychiatric drugs; over 2 million are on anti-depressants, and another 2 million are on anti-anxiety drugs. The age groups for which these drugs are prescribed is shockingly young: nearly half a million children 0-3 years old are taking drugs to combat anxiety.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

Most people in the \u2018less developed\u2019 world will find it hard to imagine how a toddler could be so anxiety-ridden that they need psychiatric help. Equally difficult to fathom are many other symptoms of social breakdown among America\u2019s children. Eating disorders, for example: the incidence of anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders has doubled since the 1960s<\/a>, and girls are developing these problems at younger and younger ages.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Globalization and the American Dream \u201c\u2026 America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being \u2013 confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented \u2013 is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.\u201d \u2014 Dinesh D\u2019Souza,\u00a0What\u2019s So Great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2822,370,14112,7711,13365],"class_list":["post-21271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-american-dream","tag-globalization","tag-helena-norberg-hodge","tag-local-futures","tag-steven-gorelick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21272,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271\/revisions\/21272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}