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• 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