Materialism is closely tied to our individualism. Personnaly opinionated essay about the States and materilism

There is an old adage which says, 'The root of all evil is money.' This, however, is not true in America. In America, money is not the problem, the love of money, or materialism, is the problem. Materialism is at the core of our American dream. We grow up learning that success is rooted in material wealth and power. We live in a country where material things mean more to the general populous than …

…to get a good education to have an educated society which can function with the other surrounding societies, rather than getting a good education to get a good job. We need a new American dream, one that motivates the betterment of society as well as the betterment of our individual selves. This new American dream can only be achieved if we remove our selfish motives, and replace them with morally based and community minded motives.