Advertising and news, politics and entertainment, and even school textbooks, according to a 2012 study, reflect the pop-folk reality, which also dictates the standards of fashion and beauty, especially among adolescents.
"You wouldn't want to spend eight seconds with these grotty and loathsome folk in reality," the critic informed his Greenwich Village hepcat constituency.
The tiny home craze has caught the attention of everyone from eco-friendly folks to reality TV addicts.
Psychedelic drugs, Markoff argues, pushed the computer and Internet revolutions forward by showing folks that reality can be profoundly altered through unconventional, highly intuitive thinking.
At a personal level I have raised issues of name change and gender recording with the information commissioner, because they affect trans folk – but the reality is that they affect women far more.
The folk scene, in reality, was a strange coming together of liberal ideals, rural traditions, marketing and youth culture, and it was equally effective at raising social consciousness, breaking aesthetic ground, making money and pairing off its participants.
The oft-derided "famous for being famous" folk who dominate reality television, make embarrassing pornography, and ponder bizarre schemes to auction off bits of their genitalia get some of the benefits provided by fame, but they also have to be willing to live in public and constantly reveal their flaws and thoughts.
Look, here is the reality, folks.
"The viewership is fighting many different barriers to equality in this country and I think one is entitled to expect a little better from these folks given that reality," said Juan Figueroa, president and general counsel of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York.
" Here's a stark reality folks – no one is really ready to make change.
I have not lost my mind and this is a reality, folks.
