"It's not quite that exciting where I come from," Cayce said wryly. "Ordinary people get up to enough horrible crap on their own, as it turns out. Still, you're right ... we can get used to almost anything. A few years ago in my ... my timeline, they were saying irony was dead, and there was even this thing in the Onion—it's a satirical newspaper—about how 'Americans desperately want to care about stupid shit again.' And then a couple years later we were right back to the stupid shit."