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• Power Mist: The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
  -- 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...
• Dumpster Clocking: The tendency when looking at objects to guesstimate the amount of time they will take to eventually decompose
  Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova....
• 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....
• Ethnomagnetism: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhood
  You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they *hug* where I live now....
• 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...
• Mental Ground Zero: The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb
  frequently, a shopping mall. -- 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...