Sacrificed Dreams

Charlotte Perkins Gilman:

Women's economic dependency on men stunts not only the growth of women but that of the whole human species. Because of the dependency of women on men for food and shelter the sexual and maternal  aspects of their personalities had been developed excessively and to the detriment of their other productive capacities.

Inspirations:

• All of human being's dreams are destroyed under our worldly pursuit of a so-called 'stable' social-economic status. We reckon it will bring us happiness.
• We surrender our dreams to the reality. We compromise our passion.
• Think about it: Since childhood, we have dreamed our future self - a painter, a PE teacher, a photographer, a professor, a pilot, a doctor. But in the end, have we become our dreams? The answer is no. We turn out to be someone else we never expected to be.

More inspirations:

• So why does this society suffocate our childhood dreams? 
• Why can't Taiwan have Mark Zuckerberg, if we are so proud of our ICT industry and innovation / advancement? 
• Our society has a strong moral judgement. This judgement is never spoken out; it's inside everyone's conscious. Whenever we see someone exceed our moral ruler, we will use peer pressure as a social power. 
• We don't care individualism that much as Western society, particularly the North American. We care the individual as a projection of the WHOLE.
• For instances: What would it happen if Mark Zuckerberg was born and raised in Taiwan - No drop-out from Harvard, neither any drop-out from any college. 'You should get the fuck back into your studies and get your bachelor degree. Better, a master one, since every college graduates go to graduate school nowadays.' So Zuckerberg got his degrees, and went to an ordinary ICT company, working his liver, youth, and brain out  for engineering. A tired, ordinary engineer. What Facebook? Stop day dreaming, dude.

Some yellings:

So why can't I do my college for six years? F off!

[PS]

Frederick Jackson Turner:

Individualism in America has allowed a laxity in regard to governmental affairs which has rendered possible the spoils system and all the manifest evils that follow from the lack of a highly developed civic spirit.

 ...and yet, in spite of environment, and in spite of custom, each frontier did indeed furnish a new filed of opportunity, a gate of escape from the bondage of the past; and freshness, and confidence, and scorn of older society, impatience of its restraints and its ideas, and indifference to its lessons, have accompanied the frontier.

          (from "The Significance of the Frontier in American History")