The New American Dream Is a Cabin in the Woods with Wi-Fi
A short, rambling exploration of our shifting values and some made-up theories about why that might be.
I hate small talk so I ask deep questions without permission. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes…not so much.
My first question on a first date last week was if happiness was the meaning of life. I asked my Uber driver if he went to Mars on Elon’s rocket, what kind of government he would set up. And, any chance I get, I ask people how they would live if they could do anything they wanted.
My favorite answer:
A cabin in the woods with Wi-Fi, a sustainable farm, and a retreat center for yoga or meditation or something like that, connected to a community of other small cabins/farms with Wi-Fi.
It seems like ask that says some variation of that cabin in the woods thing.
It’s possible I’m just friends with a bunch of weird, hippy types. It’s also possible I have some kind of confirmation bias, whereby, because I wanna live in a cabin in the woods with Wi-Fi, I notice when other people do, too but I don’t think that’s it.
I think the American Dream is changing.
