A generation of hubristic posers and fakers, far more concerned with how things look than how things really are. A pathological aversion to the truth, in every direction, having rendered the entire future down to 'now'. No future. No past. Convenient zero recollection of the asinine ideas that got us here in the first place. One bad decision leading to the next worse one, on an attenuating time frame. A four hundred pound fat man who can't get out of his own way, solely preoccupied with his next trip to the buffet line.
Globalization shrink-wrapped and commodified everything, especially the disposable zombies.
Exceptional indeed.