Scott Adams

We have a separation between what we do and what we do at home, but we define ourselves by how we produce in our life.

Am I making enough money?

Who am I comparing myself with?

A lot of folks get on the life bandwagon after coming out of university.

comparing themselves to their peer group.

Like, you know, am I making as much money as this person?

Am I doing that?

That's the quote unquote rat race.

And that pretty much established itself in the early 1950s.

It was right after World War II when we started to develop this sort of American dream.

And it's funny because

In the last two of the series, because Universe 25 is a couple of articles ago, I really am exploring what that looks like.

How did we get the American dream?

Who built that?

It started with a guy named Edward Bernays, and it worked its way through other folks.

The soap opera, I wrote about how the soap opera was manufactured

in a sense, weaponize the stay-at-home mom during the afternoon to create that social connection that they were not having in a suburb, right?

Because we were living, we're designed to live in a communal structure, a family extended communal structure.

That's our way.

It's not socialism.