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Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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