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American Self-Making and Self-Help America, Failure building block, Modern…

- - - - Difference of the American Dream
      - Failure
      - "Once in Utopia, it is doomed"
- - - - She curses the colony
      - Went on trial for having her own opinions and said God was speaking through her
    - - John Winthrop: City on a hill
  - - - Thomas Paine: Logical thinker
        
        Declaration of Independence , Thomas Jefferson
        
        Freedom but only for white men (with other qualifications)
        
        Phyllis Wheatly: poems
        
        Frederick Douglas: used to be a slave, very eloquent, can read and write
        
        Edgar Poe: Romanticism
        
        Romanticism VS Enlightenment
        
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        The macabre and mystic, the other world
        
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        "we loved with a love that was more than love"
        
        Thoreau: Doesn't give a F, savage and enlightenment thinker
        
        "A government which governs least is the best" (Thoreau)
        
        John Brown Led the rebellion on Harpers Ferry and was later executed
        
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        Nat Turner and his rebellion
        
        Common Sense
        
        New way of thinking
        
        Benjamin Franklin and his stupid 13 virtues, founding father and scientist
        
        "I offer nothing more than simple facts..." (Paine)
    - - Cultivators!
- - - - Happiness is my success
  - - - The repercussions
- - - - Enlightenment, no more religion (not really)
      - Declaration of Independence and Constitution
- - - - Violence vs non-violence
      - MLK: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
      - Malcolm X: a quote: "We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand. We all agree tonight, all of the speakers have agreed, that America has a very serious problem."
    - - Alcholics Anonymous
        
        Alan Ginsberg
        
        Religious but not overly cult-ish
      - “the desire to be important".
    - - Betty Friedan
        
        The Problem that has no name
        
        The unknown problem is depression in women
        
        Phyllis Schlafly
        
        What's wrong with equal rights for women
        
        "Women are on a pedestal when it comes to rights"
        
        Audre Lorde
        
        The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house
      - Black women and how are they seen?