The American Dream, traditionally portrayed as a path to success through hard work and education, has been systematically transformed into a corporate marketing construct designed to perpetuate consumerism and financial dependency. Edward Bernays pioneered this shift by weaponizing psychological theories to convince people to buy things they don't need, creating artificial desires to fill voids they explicitly created. This manufactured lifestyle requires individuals to work excessively long hours, pursue expensive education with minimal wage increases, and accumulate debt through credit systems, ultimately trapping people in perpetual financial struggle while corporations profit from their insecurities.
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Sometimes I feel like watching from afar.
I've been in the stor so long almost gone.
I want to be ready.
No man knows.
Tell all my friends I'm coming true.
Watch it from afar.
>> You got to get ready. Education, inspiration, family. Watch it from afar.
I've been in a storm so long. I think the biggest question, Ben, is why is why is some of the [ __ ] that they tell us the American dream?
It just don't it just don't um add up.
The [ __ ] is not the American dream, man.
Not going to work 8 to six 8 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week. And I remember doing that [ __ ] man. I did it, too. I can't lie, man. I did that [ __ ] too. I worked them 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, cuz I Hey, the American dream, that's what they told you. Work hard, you'll get ahead.
I fell for it.
I fell for that [ __ ] man.
Then you look up your retirement age and you say, "Hey man, what the [ __ ] did I accomplish?
I bought some some dumb shit."
[ __ ] that I barely use and I use it only because I bought it. So I see it. I say, "Hey man, I need to use that. I bought I spent money on that shit."
That's just like these cell phones, man.
Every goddamn year they come out with a new cell phone and they tell you, "Hey, the camera's better.
Hey, the um the volume is louder.
The color is better. It has more pixels."
That's the kind of [ __ ] they tell us, man.
And too many times we fall for the for that [ __ ] man.
Yeah. I can't fall for it no more.
I'm one of the few who woke up and through videos I try to wake others up to let them see that hey there's better things you could do with your money. There's better things you could do with your time.
That's all I want you to do. Pay attention so that you'll see that there's better things that you could be doing.
I've said on a few of videos that I completely stop watching sports.
I barely watch TV.
As for the news, please. That [ __ ] is all propaganda, man. Once you start looking at the news, you start seeing the propaganda, you say, "Hold the [ __ ] up.
This ain't [ __ ] but propaganda." And I noticed, and you may have noticed also, man, a lot of our news propaganda for either corporations or for Israel. Ain't that a [ __ ] So, I get my news from from small podcasters, guy, or from news channels around the world. I don't I don't get American news because they ain't for us. So why the [ __ ] should I be for them? Okay, if you going to [ __ ] over me, I'mma [ __ ] over you. It's that simple.
You come at me, I come at you. It's that simple.
I have no problem [ __ ] somebody up.
This is because I was a soldier. And before I was a soldier, I was in the inner city and I did things.
Yeah. And I I stood under the street lights, okay?
Like like my boys say, you know, we come out the gutter. We got the [ __ ] out the mud because we had to.
It's called survival.
During hard times, hard men are made.
So we did what we had to to survive.
And if you got in the way, hey, I'm sorry, but your dick got put in dirt.
See, I'm I'm I'm trying to be telling y'all this here, man. And I know this is more on the serious side because, you know, you got [ __ ] who come at you on a YouTube channel just because you make a couple of videos.
See, and I don't mind coming at [ __ ] and seeing who they are or what the [ __ ] they did. See, I put your [ __ ] business in the street.
You know, they got this this [ __ ] who trying to sell [ __ ] or sell her services online.
You know what I'm saying? To people who come at me because I used a small piece of a video.
[ __ ] you got to be [ __ ] up.
You better look at my channel. It's smaller than a [ __ ] I don't make no money off of YouTube, [ __ ] [ __ ] you think you dealing with?
I come at your [ __ ] ass, Miss Blunt.
All right, man. Leave this [ __ ] alone, man. This is always I'm sorry ass [ __ ] who come at you. Yeah, the weak got the weak got to go at somebody.
See her channel is is what? Maybe like a 100,000 I think it is. So she thought, "Oh, I'mma just cancel him. He's small."
No, [ __ ] It don't work that way. See, it's for now. Now I'm coming at you with every [ __ ] chance I get. I'm coming at you every chance I get. So until your [ __ ] ass give me an apology, I'mma come at your [ __ ] ass and I don't give a damn if I lose the channel. There you go. See, simple to me. Oh, hey YouTube.
All this is for educational purposes only.
Thank you.
Y'all keep watching, man.
They ain't working for you.
These politicians aren't working for you.
Change them on the local level. That's why we need to change them. Change them at your change your mayors.
Okay?
Change your school board.
Change your city council. Change all that [ __ ] That's the [ __ ] you got to change because it's local and that [ __ ] is what affects you.
It's just Aunt Man. I'm doing a little rant cuz somebody got me hot. But it's all good, man. It's all good.
I ain't forgot where I came from. I ain't forgot what I'm capable of.
I ain't forgot about the time I had to serve for the [ __ ] I had to do to people.
But hey, that's my story and I'll tell it in in a few. Catch you on the next video.
>> We living in a day is so [ __ ] backwards. It's expensive to eat healthy, but it's cheap to kill yourself. You got hoes out here getting married while the loyal people get [ __ ] over and cheated on. The price of living go up, but the minimum wage stays the same. Working for billiondollar companies but getting [ __ ] pennies.
You know what I'm saying? Real [ __ ] die young, you know what I'm saying? Get sent to jail while the rats and fake [ __ ] flourish in life and they get praised. You know what I'm saying?
What is it about this world? You know, we fighting wars that ain't got [ __ ] to do with us. You know what I'm saying? We don't know who to vote for. You know, we just don't know what's in our best interest. All we are is just a whole bunch of citizens trying to make it on our own, trying to make it for our family and [ __ ] We don't know what these people in higher powers got going on. We just got to trust that they making the right [ __ ] decision. We just out here trying to [ __ ] survive.
But everything's so [ __ ] backwards.
Nobody got morals. You know what I'm saying? Nobody got realistic standards and [ __ ] Everybody want to take from everybody. Like what the [ __ ] is going on? Is there any genuine people out there? And the people that stand on business, they get looked at like they crazy, but the people that actually talk [ __ ] crazy, get looked at like they a [ __ ] genius. What the [ __ ] kind of world is this? It's really social media.
Social media is a goddamn gift and a curse. The social media supposed to be for networking, getting to know people.
Now that shit's a [ __ ] cheating show.
[ __ ] criminalizing each other, self-inccriminating each other on there.
[ __ ] Like, what the [ __ ] Everything is so backwards. Let's talk about a dream.
Specifically, the American dream. The spacious suburban house, two cars in the driveway, annual vacations, and shiny college degrees on the wall.
For decades, it's been the gold standard of a life well-lived.
But what if it wasn't a dream at all?
What if it was actually a highly effective, incredibly lucrative business model designed to keep you running on a treadmill until you die?
To understand how we got here, we have to go back to the 1920s.
Before then, people mostly bought what they needed.
Corporations realize that if people only buy what they need, eventually they'll stop buying.
Then entered Edward Bernay, the nephew of Sigund Freud.
He took his uncle's theories on human psychology and weaponized them for Wall Street, pioneering the public relations industry.
Bernay's philosophy was chillingly simple.
He believed that conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses was essential. He shifted America from a needs culture to a desires culture by making people feel inadequate.
The message changed.
You aren't buying a car, you're buying social status. You aren't buying mouthwash. You're buying a cure for loneliness.
They systematically convinced you to buy things you don't need to fill a void they explicitly created.
The trap was set.
Fast forward a few decades. To afford this manufactured lifestyle, you needed a good job, which required the ultimate golden ticket, a college degree.
We were brainwashed to believe that without a university diploma, you were a secondass citizen.
Millions of 18year-olds signed papers they didn't understand borrow money they didn't have.
Universities funded by blank government checks cranked up prices between 2000 and 2019.
The inflationadjusted price of college skyrocketed by 59% while wages for degree holders rose by a pitiful 5%.
Today, Americans are drowning in over $1.8 trillion in student loan debt.
You didn't buy an education.
You bought an expensive entry ticket to the middle class that is increasingly worthless. Yet the monthly payments are forever.
Because stagnant wages can't cover the dream, corporations and banks devised a sinister workound. They extended you credit. They substituted actual prosperity with the illusion of purchasing power.
By 2025, total US credit card debt hit 127 trillion.
The average household carries over $9,000 in debt with interest rates topping 20%.
You became a literal asset on a bank's balance sheet, a reliable monthly revenue stream, and a slave for life to the very corporations that refuse to pay you fairly.
Because your money goes towards servicing debt and status symbols, there is nothing left for security.
Despite working to the bone, most Americans walk a financial tightroppe.
Over half cannot cover a $1,000 emergency.
You are exactly one busted transmission or surprise medical bill away from total ruin.
The ultimate cost of this system is your youth.
You skip vacations and answer emails at 9:00 p.m. Not to achieve a grand vision, but to keep the repo man away.
The system isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed. It took your insecurities, sold them back to you at a premium, and financed the whole thing. So, you'd have to work until you drop.
But there is a secret. You don't have to play.
But the moment you realize this dream was manufactured by a corporate marketing executive, you can stop buying it.
Step off the treadmill. Reclaim your time for a walk in the woods or a meal with friends.
You don't need their fake status symbols.
The only thing more valuable than their profit margins is your life.
It's such a breath of fresh air to see so many people waking up, getting off of this famous celebrity spell ritual.
Let let me just start by saying that the [ __ ] who have for decades told you to work hard, chase your dream, but you got to work hard. And in the darkness is in and in the shadows, they laying on their back and tooting their ass up and tooting their legs up and doing anything and everything to get to where they got.
The [ __ ] who act like they had talent, you know, it was something special about them. the reason why they were so rich and so famous. And then you we realize and no, they just had no morals and no standards and was willing to sacrifice anything and anyone to get there. That's the truth.
Many of us know people with talent such as myself who had a taste of that industry, got to see what those people really do, got to see how those people really are behind closed doors. And then you realize talent didn't get these people here.
Laying on their backs, sacrificing, having no dignity, having no moral compass got them to where they go. They go in dark rooms and they compromise themselves. They do wicked things to innocent babies and children and people.
They harvest your energy. The whole time they've been telling you work harder, strive harder. Energy harvesting got you singing and chanting these songs while they doing some of the most devilish, let's say that part. Let's say devilish things behind closed doors to keep you in the spellwork while they're doing these things on the music. That's why you have these D-list actors, you know, the love and hip hops and and and the reality shows. Those are the D-list.
And then it goes to the belist, the one the comedians, you know, the ones that get the Netflix series after they sacrificed their baby mamas and people like that. Uh-huh. Look around at these famous people. Every last one of them, they mama, they daddy, a uncle, a auntie, somebody die around them and then all of a sudden they got a a a series on something or they got a record coming out.
They work together.
Whole time been keeping us trapped and stuck. Some of us in a loop. Some of us have been woke quote unquote for [ __ ] ages. have been telling you people this stuff was going on for ages. Have been telling you people your Beyonces and your Jay-Z's and your Kanye West and all of these [ __ ] people have been disgusting.
They do disgusting things.
that industry is a bunch of sacrificial ritualistic Masons, Eastern stars, and now it's coming out. And it's really honestly kind of so funny to see people acting like they're so tapped in when you got people that's been talking about this [ __ ] for going on 20 years. Some of us, you even had artists like Michael Jackson and Tupac and a lot of other artists that had tried to come out and tell you people this stuff and instead of listening, you fell for the ritual that they were messing with little babies and little kids. You see how they switch it?
The people and the artists that they tell you are the good artists are the artists that are for the people and for the innocent are really the ones behind closed doors sacrificing babies doing ritual practices.
The ones that you see locked up or killed. Those are the ones who had a part of it at one point but then they try and snap out of it but it's too late. Cuz once you sign that contract, you sign the contract, you can't go back on it. A >> lot of people are starting to wake up. A lot of people are starting to realize that this world is all a stage. This world is a simulation.
People are starting to wake up. People are starting to realize that religion is man-made. That religion isn't real. That religion is the one that started war. A lot of people are starting to wake up.
They are starting to realize like this is all BS.
This is all BS. Like none of this is real. People are tired. People are tired of working a 9 to 5 job. And not even just with jobs, but the veil has lifted.
A lot of people are starting to realize like, wait a minute, this is fake.
Nothing is real. The people are fake.
The food is fake. Everything is fake.
Money is fake. Religion is fake.
Everything. Tap into your spiritual self. You are going to start to realize everything and everyone around you is fake. It's a spiritual warfare going on and a lot of people are starting to wake up. They're starting to realize like, wait a minute, this is not it. This is not it. Here in America to go and see what the standard of living is in China.
Well, we took your advice and I can guarantee this was not the outcome they were expecting. Did you know in China that 95% of their population own their homes? Did you know in China that they have almost completely eradicated homelessness? It is 0.18% if you want to be exact. Did you know in China that there are no credit checks or credit scores? Did you know in China that law school is under $800 a year? Did you know that the people in China thought it was made up that the children here in the United States, well, the ones that can afford it, need to purchase a bulletproof book bag? Did you know that the people in China think that it's so wild that us Americans feel like we are truly free because we have the right to have opinions, but we don't have the right to make any choices. Do you know that Tik Tok is banned in China? And if you let our government explain it, it's because China is a communist country and they want to control what you see and what you say. So America is following the footsteps of a communist country, but it's not against our First Amendment rights taking it away. Got it. You see, they like to demonize socialism and communism because it does not benefit the elite. Our government is saying that it's constitutional what they're doing here with Tik Tok. Do you want to know what else is constitutional? The right to protest our government. The Declaration of Independence states that Americans have the right to replace their government. We have a right to change or abolish a government that is destructive to our rights. Biden gets on TV and warns us that an oligarchy is forming. My friends, we are already in an oligarchy. The rich and elite already control everything. These are all things that we already know, but things like, "Oh, I don't know. Tik Tok put it into a visual perspective." America has quite literally gas lit us when it comes to everything. We are aware and they do not want that. Our American government thinks that we are all stupid. Pretty much everything is public access. You just need to go look for it. Have you seen how many politicians have bought stock in Meta since his Tik Tok ban has started? [ __ ] wild.
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