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• Power Mist: The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Emallgration: Migration toward lower-tech, lower-information environments containing a lessened emphasis on consumerism.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Down-Nesting: The tendency of parents to move to small, guest-room-free houses after children have moved away so as to avoid children aged 20 to 30 who boomeranged home.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Air Family: Describes the false sense of community experienced among coworkers in an office environment.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Consensus Terrorism: The process that decides in-office attitudes and behaviour.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 101-ism: The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool.
  -- 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...
• Rebellion Postponement: The tendency in one's youth to avoid traditionally youthful activities and artistic experiences in order to obtainserious career experience.
  Sometimes results in the mourning for lost youth at about age thirty, followed by silly haircuts and expensive joke-inducing wardrobes....
• Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X