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• Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Conspicuous Minimalism: A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution.
  The nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and intellectual superiority....
• 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...
• The love of meat prevents any real change. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• Clique Maintenance: The need of one generation to see the generaton following it as deficient so as to bolster its own collective ego
  Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest....
• 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...
• Yuppie Wannabes: An X Generation subgroup that believes the myth of a yuppie life-style being both satisfying and viable.
  Tend to be highly in debt, involved in some form of substance abuse, and show a willingness to talk about Armageddon after three drinks....
• Cafe Minimalism: To espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting into practice any of its tenets.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Emotional Ketchup Burst: The bottling up of opinions and emotions inside oneself so that they explosively burst forth all at once
  hocking and confusing employers and friends - most of whom thought things were fine....