Knee-Jerk Irony:
The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive
matter of course in everyday conversation.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive
matter of course in everyday conversation.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- 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... - Power Mist:
The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be
diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X... - O'propriation:
The inclusion of advertising, packaging, and entertainment
jargon from earlier eras in everyday speech for ironic and/or comic
effec
Kathleen's Favorite Dead Celebrity party was tons o' fun" or "Dave really thinks of himself as a zany, nutty, wacky, and madcap guy, doesn't he?... - Option Paralysis:
The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
[Often experienced when asked what kind of salad dressing one wants.... - Personal Tabu:
A small rule for living, bordering on a superstition, that
allows one to cope with everyday life in the absence of cultural or
religious dictums.
-- 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... - Strangelove Reproduction:
Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
believes in the future.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X... - Tele-parablizing:
Morals used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plo
"That's just like the episode where Jan lost her glasses!" -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X... - The love of meat prevents any real change. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
