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Everything's Fine

Everything's Fine Everything’s Fine Isabel Pabán Freed Actually, it’s 2026, so, with respect to the culture, we can say everything’s mid. The word had one of its early literary breakthroughs in the Winter 2023 pages of n+1 , where it helped answer the editors’ title question, “Why Is Everything So Ugly?” There, they use the word ugly less to mean conspicuously busted and more just to refer to a pervasive and insipid monotony, a “new ugliness” that, using the techniques of both mass production shoddiness and “Apple’s slick industrial-design hegemon,” has pincered us into a middle ground where “

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