Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
Status Substitution: Using An Object With Intellectual Or Fashionable Cachet To Substitute For An Object That Is Merely Pricey
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Miscellaneous Collections
Status Substitution:
Using an object with intellectual or fashionable cachet to
substitute for an object that is merely pricey: "Brian, you left your
copy of Camus in your brother's BMW."
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
Conspicuous Minimalism: A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution.
The nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and intellectual superiority....
You might not count in the New Order. -- 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...
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
The Tens: The first decade of a new century. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Conversational Slumming: The self-conscious enjoyment of a given conversation precisely for its lack of intellectual rigor.
A major spin-off of Recreational Slumming. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...