Stuff I Thought Would Pass

As a meditation on the unreliable nature of impermanence, I offer this week an incomprehensive list of dubious fads I assumed would long have returned to obscurity by now:

Bottled water
Right wing politics
Racism
Free market fundamentalism and "free" trade.
Wearing your trousers hanging off your arse
Evangelical Christianity
Obscenity-filled rap
Twitter
Wearing shorts year-round
Self-defeating copyright enforcement
Private healthcare schemes
Reality television
New Age malarkey
Proscription of ex-convicts
Man-hating feminism
Wearing beach thongs as actual footwear
Red-baiting (you know, now there's no Reds)
Misogyny
Liberal parties without platform or ideology
Churchie Zen
Undirected development and exploitation of land
The notion that sex is the worst thing that can happen to you
Hatred of foreigners

It's worth pointing out that a few positive things have also survived my scepticism. Wikipedia and Internet radio come to mind. 

(Photo courtesy of Andreas Trepte and Wikimedia Commons.)