2+2=5-ism:
Caving in to a target marketing strategy aimed at oneself
after holding out for a long period of time. "Oh, all right, I'll buy
your stupid cola. Now leave me alone."
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Caving in to a target marketing strategy aimed at oneself
after holding out for a long period of time. "Oh, all right, I'll buy
your stupid cola. Now leave me alone."
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- 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... - Divorce Assumption:
A form of Safety Net-ism, the belief that if a marriage
doesn't work out
then there is no problem because partners can simply... - 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... - Historical Overdosing:
To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen
Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines... - Historical Underdosing:
To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen
Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines... - Mental Ground Zero:
The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping
of the atomic bomb
frequently, a shopping mall. -- Douglas Coupland,... - 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... - Vaccinated Time Travel:
To fantasize about traveling backward in time
but only with proper vaccinations. -- Douglas Coupland... - Emotional Ketchup Burst:
The bottling up of opinions and emotions inside oneself so
that they explosively burst forth all at once
shocking and confusing employers and friends - most...
