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• Now Denial: To tell oneself that the only time worth living is in the past and that the only time that may ever be interesting again is the future.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 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...
• 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...
• Historical Overdosing: To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.
  Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts....
• Historical Underdosing: To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen.
  Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts....
• Mental Ground Zero: The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb
  frequently, a shopping mall. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Me-ism: A search by an individual, in the absence of training in the traditional religious tenets, to formulate a personally tailored religion by himself.
  Most frequently a mishmash of reincarnation, personal dialogue with a nebulously defined god figure, naturalism, and karmic eye-for-eye attitudes....
• Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Emotional Ketchup Burst: The bottling up of opinions and emotions inside oneself so that they explosively burst forth all at once
  hocking and confusing employers and friends - most of whom thought things were fine....