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• Poorochondria: Hypochondria derived form not having medical insurance.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Spectacularism: A fascination with extreme situations. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• Celebrity Shadenfreude: Lurid thrills derived from talking about celebrity deaths.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
  -- 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Armanism: After Georgio Armani: an obsession with mimicking the seamless and (more importantly) *controlled* ethos of Italian couture.
  Lake Japanese Minimalism, Armanism reflects a profound inner need for control....
• Me-ism: A search by an individual, in the absence of training in the traditional religious tenets, to formulate a personally tailored religion by himself.
  Most frequently a mishmash of reincarnation, personal dialogue with a nebulously defined god figure, naturalism, and karmic eye-for-eye attitudes....