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The New Better Off

: Reinventing the American Dream

Are we living the good lifeand what defines 'good,' anyway? Americans today are constructing a completely different framework for success than their parents' generation, using new metrics that TED speaker and On Being columnist Courtney Marti

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“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity.”

— Courtney E. Martin, amazon.com

Tagged: support system, Global Village

“People are defined by their people. They are defined by their pleasure. They are defined by their memories. That’s about it. All the rest is, well, stuff.”

— Courtney E. Martin, amazon.com

Tagged: Identity, Definitions of Self, Pleasure, Memories, Material Things