There has been a sci-fi magazine by this name for almost a 100 years in the US that provides a different type of literature than say reading 'Moby Dick' or 'Grapes of Wrath' or 'Bourne Identity'. It is a genre all its own.
A modern twist to this content has recently gained a cult following in the form of social. Through apps designed to espouse the virtue and folly of everything from restaurants to cars to vacuum cleaners and service providers there are all sorts of twits and yelps that can be heard online.
People take this data and reports into account as a voice of consumer before deciding if they intend to consume the same stuff. Mostly the answer is a resounding YES. What else is a consumer going to do?
You see all the reporting aside one thing that separates us from the rest of the world is the fact that we CONSUME. Get it?
Rest of world's media can report on that conspicuous consumption and gawk. No wonder they don't have time to be consumers themselves with all their time spent gawking at ours.
New rating scales are being designed to gage our consumption as a percentile of the rest of the world's. Government is hard at work in its last days in office to ensure that even our homeless have safe access to at least the third generation of gently toasted ipads. They will just have to strain their Retinas for another year until the new leadership has found a way to bridge this horrible gap in health services.
Headphones may or may not be available at the shelters depending on how many people with both ears intact would line up. This will lead to some more disruptions of quiet streets as identified by the Boom Box Incidents of the 90s.
A modern twist to this content has recently gained a cult following in the form of social. Through apps designed to espouse the virtue and folly of everything from restaurants to cars to vacuum cleaners and service providers there are all sorts of twits and yelps that can be heard online.
People take this data and reports into account as a voice of consumer before deciding if they intend to consume the same stuff. Mostly the answer is a resounding YES. What else is a consumer going to do?
You see all the reporting aside one thing that separates us from the rest of the world is the fact that we CONSUME. Get it?
Rest of world's media can report on that conspicuous consumption and gawk. No wonder they don't have time to be consumers themselves with all their time spent gawking at ours.
New rating scales are being designed to gage our consumption as a percentile of the rest of the world's. Government is hard at work in its last days in office to ensure that even our homeless have safe access to at least the third generation of gently toasted ipads. They will just have to strain their Retinas for another year until the new leadership has found a way to bridge this horrible gap in health services.
Headphones may or may not be available at the shelters depending on how many people with both ears intact would line up. This will lead to some more disruptions of quiet streets as identified by the Boom Box Incidents of the 90s.
Consume karte karte mar should be the motto of THE cosnumer nation. Govt is only to help you do that, at all cost.
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