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Safety Net-ism: The Belief That There Will Always Be A Financial And Emotional Safety Net To Buffer Life's Hurts.
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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
Related:
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...
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...
Poverty Lurks: Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Diseases for Kisses (Hyperkarma): A deeply rooted belief that punishment will somehow always be far greater than the crime
ozone holes for littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Derision Preemption: A life-style tactic; the refusal to go out on any sort of emotional limb so as to avoid mockery from peers.
Derision Preemption is the main goal of Knee-Jerk Irony. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Cryptotechnophobia: The secret belief that technology is more of a menace than a boon.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
QFM: Quelle Fashion Mistake. "It was really QFM, I mean painter pants?
That's 1979 beyond belief!" -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Paper Rabies: Hypersensitivity to littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Spectacularism: A fascination with extreme situations. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X