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• Cafe Minimalism: To espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting into practice any of its tenets.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Dorian Graying: The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs of aging.
  -- 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...
• 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...
• Pull-The-Plug, Slice The Pie: A fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net worth of his parents.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X