Keith Barry

If you’re constantly being zapped by the idea that you can’t do something, or that you’re stupid or less important than somebody else, then eventually you’re going to start believing it.

) a definition of what we mean by American capitalist ideology

The work ethic:

Capitalism, the right of ownership, private enterprise, personal ini-tiative; the settling of the land.

. Marriage (legalized heterosexual monogamy) and family

Nature as the wilderness, the Indians, on whose subjugation civilization is built

Progress, technology, the city (

Success and wealth

The Rosebud syndrome

8. America as the land where everyone is or can be happy;