It is hard to believe that the American Experience can be defined by any one person; it is surely different to any person that tackles it. Look at the volumes of essays, novels, short stories, and books written about this topic, each with different themes and theses concerning it. One website alone cannot truly hope to encompass the entire scope of such a broad subject.
There are, however, many common ideas among these separate views, and this website is an attempt to synthesize and fuse these similar and connected ideas together and to create a comment on it that represents the American Experience from my point of view. And my point of view is simply that although the American Experience does involve the idea of a brighter future, or chasing an ideal, it is not reaching this future that the American Experience is concerned with. The most important part of the American Experience is the experience. Getting to the end is not the goal, because the American Experience is not only about success and gaining riches, but is instead an embodiment of the idea that there will always be that brighter future to look forward to. The Experience is a journey, and it is an endless one, because the idea behind it is that the journey's end is not as important as how the journeyer has reached that point, and what is beyond the next achievement.
And while it may not be clear where the American Experience ends, here is where it begins.
And while it may not be clear where the American Experience ends, here is where it begins.