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• 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....
• 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...
• Tele-parablizing: Morals used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plo
  "That's just like the episode where Jan lost her glasses!" -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 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...
• Virgin Runway: A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has chosen it.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Dorian Graying: The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs of aging.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...