Things the Consumer Society Thinks You Should Own (based upon advertisements in a recent issue of The Atlantic Monthly):
-- a stone from Hadrian’s Wall
-- a hood ornament from a Mercedez-Benz
-- a Blackberry
-- Bose Quiet Comfort 2 Acoustic Noise Canceling Headphones
-- a clarinet
-- Junghams Apollo Mega Multi Frequency Atomic Watch (with radio-controlled accuracy; accurate to 1 second in 1 million years)
-- a Panama fedora
-- flawlessly tailored two-ply cotton pinpoint Oxford shirt
-- the world’s first crumple zone
-- an heirloom-breed, pasture-raised chicken
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