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 notion allows shoppers to pretend that large, cement blocks thrust into their environment do not, in fact, exist.... - Terminal Wanderlust:
A condition common to people of transient middle-class
upbringings.
Unable to feel rooted in any one environment, they move continually in the hopes of finding an idealized sense of community in the next location.... - McJob:
A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future
job in the service sector.
Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one.... - 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 X... - Bambification:
The mental conversion of flesh and blood living creatures into
cartoon characters possessing borgeois Judeo-Christian attitudes and
morals.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X... - Japanese Minimalism:
The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by
rootless career-hopping young people.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X... - Ozmosis:
The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X... - Poor Buoyancy:
The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X... - Dorian Graying:
The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs
of aging.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
