Mental Ground Zero:
The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping
of the atomic bomb; frequently, a shopping mall.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping
of the atomic bomb; frequently, a shopping mall.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- The Emperor's New mall:
The popular notion that shopping malls exist only on the
insides and have no exterior.
The suspension of visual belief engendered by this... - Terminal Wanderlust:
A condition common to people of transient middle-class
upbringings.
Unable to feel rooted in any one environment, they... - McJob:
A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit,
no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered... - 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... - Bambification:
The mental conversion of flesh and blood living creatures into
cartoon characters possessing borgeois Judeo-Christian attitudes and
morals.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Japanese Minimalism:
The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by
rootless career-hopping young people.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Ozmosis:
The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Poor Buoyancy:
The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Dorian Graying:
The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs
of aging.
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
