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• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 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...
• Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• Mental Ground Zero: The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb
  frequently, a shopping mall. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
  [Often experienced when asked what kind of salad dressing one wants....
• Anti-Sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year).
  The intention is to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete or designing computer knit sweaters in Hong Kong....
• Emallgration: Migration toward lower-tech, lower-information environments containing a lessened emphasis on consumerism.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Power Mist: The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...