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Strangelove Reproduction: Having Children To Make Up For The Fact That One No Longer Believes In The Future.
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Strangelove Reproduction:
Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
believes in the future.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
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...
Poorochondria: Hypochondria derived form not having medical insurance.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
McJob: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector.
Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one....
Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Lessness: A philosophy whereby one reconciles oneself with diminishing expectations of material wealth
I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot....
Dorian Graying: The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs of aging.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Virgin Runway: A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has chosen it.
-- 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...