American Dream A Biological Impossibility, Neuroscientist...

The American dream has lurked over its people with open, forgiving, and promising arms. It served as a beacon for all who wanted to escape their indigenous lives, and seek refuge in a place where opportunity and hope ran rampant. The beacon that was once brightly lit for the world and its inhabitants to gaze in awe at, has since been dimmed by the very people that kneel beneath it. Their absolute, immediate fulfillment of this dream damaged one of the internal foundations that made the country as strong and powerful as it is. More specifically, the American dream has provided Americans with a set of ideals that effectively led to an overarching usage of credit cards, which, in a broad view, deeply harms the nation’s economy, simply because those ideals are no longer biologically possible, as according to WIRED s article, â€Å"American Dream a Biological Impossibility, Neuroscientist Says† by Brandon Keim. Dr. Peter Whybrow is a psychologist who â€Å"is the Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. He is an international authority on the neuroscience of emotion, manic-depressive disease, and the effects of thyroid hormone on brain and human behavior† (Experts Biography; Peter Whybrow, M.D.). He states that â€Å"We’ve been taught, especially in America, that happiness will be at the end of some sort of material road, where we have lots and lots of things that we want, †¦ [and] we’ve set up all sorts of tricks to delude ourselves into thinking that it’s fine