Remember The Real World? It first came out 20 years ago, on this very day back in 1992.
America's deep and sadly abiding fascination with the spending of money will obviously never die completely -- we're too wish-based a society for that -- but might there be hope that something like Occupy Wall Street could, in some moderately significant way, at least change current tastes in pop culture?
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