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the world we live in...
Litigation has become the Great American Dream · Men are now objectified in the media as much as women; nearly naked men sell jeans, soda, and soap · Seven-year-old girls diet · "Powerful homosexual" is no longer an oxymoron · Castro is still running Cuba · Iranian field hands plan their days around the satellite broadcast of a mediocre American TV show about lifeguards in bikinis · There is a sexually transmitted disease that's incurable and lethal · The world is more crowded but cleaner · Apartheid is over · The Cold War is over · Africa is devolving into a real basket case · Leisure time is becoming non-existent · Liberalism came and went · Gold holds its value · Cars are rounder-looking · Plastic surgery is almost mandatory in some professions · They had another Woodstock, and Pepsi-Cola sponsored it · Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley · The richest man in the world is a computer nerd · There is a Euro Disney amusement park in France · You can't smoke anywhere anymore · Nazis are making a comeback in the US · The Japanese own Rockefeller Center - and it's now in bankruptcy · Your local Savings & Loan has probably failed · One of the largest entertainment companies is owned by Sony, another by Seagram · Natalie Cole sold millions of copies of an album of duets with her dead dad · Airbags and cupholders are the new metrics by which all cars are judged · Air travel is ridiculously popular, but supersonic air travel never really caught on · The US Postal Service has released stamps commemorating Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and the presidency of Richard Nixon · One of the most popular TV shows involves following local police officers around as they arrest people · O. J. Simpson has become the world's biggest star · You can buy anything in the former Soviet Union: spacecraft, nuclear reactors, advanced military aircraft ... anything · There is no Sears catalog and Sears is no longer headquartered at the Sears Tower · Stand-up comics outnumber nuns · Miss America is deaf · Gene-altered animals can be patented · You can buy greeting cards for incest victims.
Doug Coupland
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