Japanese Minimalism:
The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by
rootless career-hopping young people.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by
rootless career-hopping young people.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Cafe Minimalism:
To espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting
into practice any of its tenets.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - McJob:
A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit,
no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered... - 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... - Conspicuous Minimalism:
A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution.
The nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token... - Homeowner Envy:
Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the
disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Ethnomagnetism:
The tendency of young people to live in emotionally
demonstrative,
more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: "You wouldn't... - 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... - Metaphasia:
An inability to perceive metaphor.
--
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
From the same category:
- The herd instinct among economists makes sheep look
like independent thinkers... - Bad habits?
I have nun... - Interstate-65
Auburn... - Yo momma nose so big you can go bowling with her
boogers... - To leave this keen encounter of our wits.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
King Richard III -- Act i, Sc....
