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| #4788 | | Ozmosis:
The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4789 | | Power Mist:
The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse
and preclude crisp articulation.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4790 | | Overboarding:
Overcompensating for fears about the future by plunging
headlong into a job or life-style seemingly unrelated to one's
previous life interests: i.e., Amway sales, aerobics, the Republican
party, a career in law, cults, McJobs....
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4791 | | Earth Tones:
A youthful subgroup interested in vegetarianism, tie-dyed
outfits, mild recreational drugs, and good stereo equipment. Earnest,
frequently lacking in humor.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4792 | | Ethnomagnetism:
The tendency of young people to live in emotionally
demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: "You wouldn't
understand it there, mother -- they *hug* where I live now."
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4793 | | Mid-Twenties Breakdown:
A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties,
often caused by an inability to function outside of school or
structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential
aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of
pharmaceutical usage.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4794 | | Successophobia:
The fear that if one is successful, then one's personal needs
will be forgotten and one will no longer have one's childish needs
catered to.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4795 | | Safety Net-ism:
The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional
safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4796 | | Divorce Assumption:
A form of Safety Net-ism, the belief that if a marriage
doesn't work out, then there is no problem because partners can simply
seek a divorce.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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| #4797 | | Anti-Sabbatical:
A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a
limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to
raise enough funds to partake in another, more meaningful activity
such as watercolor sketching in Crete, or designing computer knit
sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of intentions.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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