The Greatest Thing in the World

Thomas Frank says the advertising guys got it. They understood that America's happy mediocrity was not quite so happy anymore. Now you didn't follow trends to keep up with the Joneses, he says. You wanted to get the new thing to stand out from the Joneses.

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