All of us are trying to find an American culture that is not on steroids, in some form or another. America is called 'Generica' and that is a sad, though powerful, definition.

Barlow's image of a nomadic virtual home seems exceptional but is grounded in demographic fact. In America the average person moves house 17 times in their lifetime: 'They have no home town, urban life is standardised and they come from a place called Generica'.

Chandler commanded a spotlight at the far end of the stage at Picker’s Supply Concert Hall downtown last Friday night. There, he was loudly ranting about a commerical wasteland he called the "Unlted States of Generica."