“Human spirit for sale, human spirit for sale, one liberal and helpful old human spirit for sale. I’m really not kidding so who’ll start the bidding, do I hear a dollar? A nickel? A penny? Oh isn’t there isn’t there isn’t there any one person who will buy this human spirit for sale?” (Satire on the popular Shel Siverstein poem For Sale.) Zoltan Istvan agrees that many Americans would barter their human spirit for a chance to gain the ultimately useless American dream, he furthers this idea in his book The Transhumanist Wager.
Nick states, “One night I did hear a material car there and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn’t investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn’t know
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And while this may have been the norm in 1959, in 2015 it takes two paychecks to even come close to this idea. Source E states that “the American dream costs approximately $130,000 annually.” The American dream will not only take over two paychecks but also the entirety of your human spirit and the well- being of the household. Once you sell your soul to gain material items, the dream has already zoomed by you and on to the next bigger and better good. This constant feeling of inadequacy talked about in source F fuels a drive to be the best among all and prompts Americans to dust off the boxes of love and integrity just in time for their next garage sale of used and unneeded items to make room for the latest and greatest car that you have to have.
Martin Luther King gave his ‘I have a dream’ speech in 1963, a time when the American dream was being equal with fellow American, now that dream has twisted into one of greed and self-indulgence. This idea of dramatically re-interpreting Martin Luther’s ideals is present in Zoltan Istvan’s book The Transhumanist Wager, it is also seen in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, large corporations, and ideal income in