The "big ambitions" (and specifically, those not of the good kind, like e.g. becoming a doctor and such, but the "private pool", expensive car, lotsa money variety) have been shoehorned into the average American mind through over a century of indoctrination, advertisement, and propaganda.
It's all about making people never be content with their material belongings and thinking that the next purchase or achievement unlocked with make them happy.
The "big ambitions" (and specifically, those not of the good kind, like e.g. becoming a doctor and such, but the "private pool", expensive car, lotsa money variety) have been shoehorned into the average American mind through over a century of indoctrination, advertisement, and propaganda.
It's all about making people never be content with their material belongings and thinking that the next purchase or achievement unlocked with make them happy.
E.g. https://www.amazon.com/Captains-Consciousness-Advertising-Co...