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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.
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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
Related:
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
2+2=5-ism: Caving in to a target marketing strategy aimed at oneself after holding out for a long period of time.
Oh, all right, I'll buy your stupid cola. Now leave me alone." -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Expatriate Solipsism: When arriving in a foreign travel destination one has hoped was undiscovered, only to find many people just like oneself
he peeved refusal to talk to said people because they have ruined one's elitist travel fantasy....
Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
-- 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...
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....
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....
Dumpster Clocking: The tendency when looking at objects to guesstimate the amount of time they will take to eventually decompose
Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova....