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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...
• Sick Building Migration: The tendency of younger workers to leave or avoid jobs in unhealthy office environments or workplaces affected by the Sick Building Syndrome.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Power Mist: The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Survivulousness: The tendency to visualize oneself enjoying being the last remaining person on earth.
  I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell....
• Poverty Lurks: Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era parents.
  -- 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...
• 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...
• Rebellion Postponement: The tendency in one's youth to avoid traditionally youthful activities and artistic experiences in order to obtainserious career experience.
  Sometimes results in the mourning for lost youth at about age thirty, followed by silly haircuts and expensive joke-inducing wardrobes....