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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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| #4818 | | Poor Buoyancy:
The realization that one was a better person when one had less
money.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4819 | | Musical Hairsplitting:
The act of classifying music and musicians into pathologically
picayune categories: "The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban
white acid fold revivalism crossed with ska."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4820 | | 101-ism:
The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all
aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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