Gloomy

but considering how many people get a large soda in the morning and sip on it all day,

I am European and this sentence broke something in my soul.

What is this, lost earth?

Yes, let’s have exponensial groth instead.

I know you are making fun and all, but things like this are indeed reproduced.

Basicly it’s a process of cultural and collective copy and pasting, where media and indivulas reproduce a concept by either activly using it (or not) or passives acepting it.

It’s a bit more complex than that, but you probably get the idea.