COUNTER EARTH

I really disapprove of people who tell others they "ought to try living in the real world." Blame my klown college education if you will, but as far as I recall, there's just the one world, the real, which we're all sharing.

Okay, so there's the dream world that the Australian aborigines and Native American Indians put their faith in.

And, of course, there's the exact mirrored version of our planet that exists in precise opposition to us on the far side of the sun, popularly known as Counter Earth.

Oh, and there's the world in the Matrix, where it's really a big simulation.

And I'll grant you that political theorist Antonio Gramsci maintained that this world was a dream to experiment within.

And then there's Leather World, Disneyworld, Wayne's World and Elmo's World. Ghost World, the Lost World, Spice World and the World of Tomorrow. There's the mad, mad, mad, mad World, the World according to Garp, the Brave New World and PC World.

Okay, start again...

Those examples - and countless others - aside, there's just the one world, isn't there? What is up with these people who insist I try living there? Where do they think I live? Where are they living? Do they get tax breaks for living there?

"You want to try living in the real world, Krusty."

"And miss out on the duty free on the trip home?! Are you kidding me?! Eurrrgh!"