Lower Your Expectations: Because A Life Built on Sand Can Also Be Called A Day at the Beach

Ah, the American Dream. How's that working out for ya? At a time when the middle class is violently under attack from all sides comes Lower Your Expectations -- Randy Treu's wicked take on the fantasy that was once our reality. Whether it's your job ("our grandfathers did not seek employment that thrilled their souls, they went to work because letting their families starve would have looked bad to the neighbors"), your relationship ("It may indeed be a proven fact that love is blind, but for it to last, love must be delusional as well"), or even worse, your heightened sense of the dreaded "a" word ("As we have seen, awareness doesn't change anything, blame does") Lower your Expectations takes it all down with a witty and irreverent vengeance.

As America learns to lower her expectations, her citizens will have far less reason to seek out professional help. Therapists will become the steelworkers of the 21st century - unneeded and unemployable with few transferable skills to help them make their way in a post-therapeutic America. It could be that in a few years, we will find this overeducated underclass of former self-help guru's populating America's street corners holding up signs saying, 'Will trade therapy for food.' It's time to make this dream come true.

Does Lower Your Expectations work? Hell, look around; you're getting old, your spouse bores the hell out of you and your career, which seemed like a dumb idea back then, is now life threatening. What have you got to lose?