This is what happened to Japan after WWII, and it's terrible
(NEWSER) - There is an epidemic of cuteness in the country, Jim Windolf writes, symptomatic of our national desire to be loved and taken care of after 8 years of George W. Bush and a much-diminished standing in the world. The signs are everywhere: giggling babies, LOLcats, cupcakes, “cutegasms,” the Mini-Cooper. It started in post-war Japan—still the "cute capital of the world"—but America is catching up. So fast, Windolf writes, that the surfeit of cuteness is “almost enough to make you nostalgic for Dick Cheney.” More»
