David Brin has been refering to this decade as the "Naughty Aughties". Dunno if it's his idea or someone else's, but it's as good a name as I've heard yet (though in the future we may look back upon this time and refer to it just as the "Oughts", as in "there were things we ought to have done to save ourselves, but we decided to take the money instead".)
Update: Somebody has already trademarked the term, if you can believe it. It's things like this that make me think that our culture cannot collapse fast enough.
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Is it just me or is most everything tainted by capitalism?
Culture? We have culture? So did the Romans and look what happened to them in the fifth century..we ain't learned shit yet...have we?
With apologies to the Scream Trilogy: it's all about the trademarking!
@ Dusty: in a country in which 47% +/- voted Republican for president, you can ask if we've not learned anything? Obviously, a good chunk of us havent. Perhaps the next few years, after the auto companies fail, will give us a clue.
@ Pryme: Trademarking is way out of control.
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