The American dream ideology frames success pursuit as virtuous rather than materialistic

Evidence

The fantasy structure of Family, Nation and Heroism thus functions, not in any sense as a representation, false or otherwise, but as a model to live up to. The inevitable failure of our own lives to match up to the digital Ideal is one of the motors of capitalism’s worker-consumer passivity, the docile pursuit of what will always be elusive, a world free of fissures and discontinuities. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 377 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The entrepreneur myth persists because it reinforces core American values — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 682; Sub-prime lending exploited the American Dream myth to sell mobility to marginalized borrowers — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 528; The American dream’s meaning depends on whether one frames success individually or collectively — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2011 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Compensatory fantasy of Family Nation and Heroism drives capitulation to capitalism #complicates (0.74) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 377