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Pull-The-Plug, Slice The Pie: A Fantasy In Which An Offspring Mentally Tallies Up The Net Worth Of His Parents.
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Pull-The-Plug, Slice The Pie:
A fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net
worth of his parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
Poverty Lurks: Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era parents.
-- 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...
Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
-- 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...
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...
Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Paper Rabies: Hypersensitivity to littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Spectacularism: A fascination with extreme situations. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The love of meat prevents any real change. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X