July 4 is the day America celebrates its independence and its establishment as a democratic republic. Paradoxically, the same systems and forces put in place by our Founding Fathers to grant us freedom also allow people to behave in ways which, over time, have systematically constricted our freedom in subtly destructive ways.

How many of you living in America feel that the ideal of the American Dream is what it once was? Every business interest in the nation has taken over every aspect of that dream and twisted it around into a way to blackmail your paycheck and your sense of security: the health care industry, the financial industry, the insurance industry, and consumer products and services. At times they hardly seem better than legal organized crime (I mean, really, have you ever even seen a good bank?).

And yet…

And yet, along with this long-term evolutionary perversion, the same freedoms and technologies also empower us as individuals or groups to make a go of it doing our own thing. Entrepreneurialism is alive and well. And it is the new creatives, the tech-savvy businesspeople of today who are rewriting what the American Dream means.

Many of us are rewriting the dream on our blogs, with each post.

Thanks to the democratizing power of the web, anyone can learn to earn an income online. In some ways, it’s easier than you think; in other ways, it’s harder, but anything worth doing with a possibility for high rewards is never easy—or everyone would be doing it. If you have access to the right information, you can have it easier than others do.

I hope I can be part of that for you, and make it easier for you to help us keep rewriting the American Dream, one blog post (and tweet) at a time.

Happy Independence Day, America.