We grow smaller and smaller

Well we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. Ensure a stong national defense, prevent the spread of communism in Central America, work for a Middle East peace settlement, prevent U.S.. military involvement orerseas. We have to sensure that America is a respeced world power... find a a cure for the AIDS epidemic, clean up environmental damage from toxic waste and pollution, improve the quality of primary and secondary education, strengthen laws to crack down on crime and illegal drugs. We also have to ensure that college education is affordable for the middle class and protect Social Security for senior citizens plus conserve natural resources and wilderness areas and reduce the influence of political action committees.

This is an excerpt from American Psycho written in 1991 but set in the me me me consumeristic '80s. How far have we come from then?

Yeah, no more aprtheid and South Africa is all fine now....