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| #4808 | | Cult of Aloneness:
The need for autonomy at all costs, usually at the expense of
long-term relationships. Often brought about by overly high
expectations of others.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4809 | | Celebrity Schadenfreude:
Lurid thrills derived from talking about celebrity deaths.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4810 | | The Emperor's New Mall:
The popular notion that shopping malls exist on the insides only
and have no exterior. The suspension of visual disbelief engendered
by this notion allows shoppers to pretend that the large, cement
blocks thrust into their environment do not, in fact, exist.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4811 | | Poorochrondria:
Hypochrondria derived from not having medical insurance.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4812 | | Personal Tabu:
A small rule for living, bordering on a superstition, that
allows one to cope with everyday life in the absence of cultural or
religious dictums.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4813 | | Architectural Indigestion:
The almost obsessive need to live in a "cool"
architectural environment. Frequently related objects of fetish
include framed black-and-white art photography (Diane Arbus a
favorite); simplistic pine furniture; matte black high-tech items such
as TVs, stereos, and telephones; low-wattage ambient lighting; a lamp,
chair, or table that alludes to the 1950s; cut flowers with complex
names.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4814 | | Japanese Minimalism:
The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by
rootless career-hopping young people.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4815 | | Bread and Circuits:
The electronic era tendency to view party politics as corny --
no longer relevant of meaningful or useful to modern societal issues,
and in many cases dangerous.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4816 | | Voter's Block:
The attempt, however futile, to register dissent with the
current political system by simply not voting.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4817 | | Armanism:
After Giorgio Armani; an obsession with mimicking the seamless
and (more importantly) *controlled* ethos of Italian couture. Like
Japanese Minimalism, Armanism reflects a profound inner need for
control.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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