He noticed that while they quickly grew accustomed to and even mastered the technical innovations they found on the surface like ATMs, talking cars, bigger TVs, Skype, GPS, and watching movies on your wristwatch, all things that were classically futuristic; they were much slower however to recognize and internalize what was generally considered social progress and cultural growth: some of which they considered comical such as baggy pants with underwear showing, some of which they considered vulgar such as butt cracks, and feminine hygiene ads on TV, but most of which they considered toxic and
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