The blinking red light telling Wanda and Pietro they're going to die at any moment, while the Dick van Dyke show still merrily plays Wanda's favorite episode -- the one where Dick has a silly nightmare of his world falling apart but he wakes up and everything's fine
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And the conservative politicians look at our changing world full of resentment and conflict and anger and think that means "the American Dream is dead"? All that negativity is because the Dream *didn't die*
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That crimson rage is the Dream still pulsing hard beneath the skin of every radicalized "anti-American" It's having a vision of how life could be -- of how you were *promised* life *would* be if you put in your hours and took your lumps -- that *didn't* die
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No matter how many bland, polite men in business suits looked at you from across your desk and told you it was never yours to begin with Something they tried to bury but *would not die*
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That play about the desperate, possibly doomed struggle for a working-class Black family to get the damn house in the suburbs, A Raisin in the Sun, is named for a line from Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem", whose first line is "What happens to a dream deferred?"
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It's that whole galaxy-brain thing Foucauldian thing about how every seemingly subversive text has a reading where it upholds the status quo and yet also every conservative text invites a subversive reading
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The cheesy commercial propaganda they try to feed you to tell you everything is okay and no war needs to be fought refutes itself The contrast between the lie and the reality awakens a greater rage than before the lie was told
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The cheesy sitcoms that were intended (insofar as there was any coherent intention behind moneymaking media moguls pumping this shit out) to make good happy prolefed citizens awakened the Scarlet Witch
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You know what Langston Hughes said about what happens to dreams deferred, and all... "What is a revolution, if not a dream persevering?"
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It also - I think it hangs together because it almost works. It's not likely you get it, but it's not impossible. You know people.
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