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| #4798 | | Legislated Nostalgia:
To force a body of people to have memories they do not
actually possess: "How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I
don't even remember any of it?"
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4799 | | Now Denial:
To tell oneself that the only time worth living in is the past and
that the only time that may ever be interesting again is the future.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4800 | | Bambification:
The mental conversion of flesh and blood living creatures into
cartoon characters possessing bourgeois Judeo-Christian attitudes and
morals.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4801 | | Diseases for Kisses (Hyperkarma):
A deeply rooted belief that punishment will somehow always be
far greater than the crime: ozone holes for littering.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4802 | | Spectacularism:
A fascination with extreme situations.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4803 | | Lessness:
A philosophy whereby one reconciles oneself with diminishing
expectations of material wealth: "I've given up wanting to make a
killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open
up a little roadside cafe in Idaho."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4804 | | Status Substitution:
Using an object with intellectual or fashionable cachet to
substitute for an object that is merely pricey: "Brian, you left your
copy of Camus in your brother's BMW."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4805 | | Survivulousness:
The tendency to visualize oneself enjoying being the last
person on Earth. "I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens
down on the Taco Bell."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4806 | | Platonic Shadow:
A nonsexual friendship with a member of the opposite sex.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4807 | | Mental Ground Zero:
The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping
of the atomic bomb; frequently, a shopping mall.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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