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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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| #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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