Mid-twenties Breakdown:
A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often
caused by inability to function outside of school or structured
environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness
in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical
usage.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often
caused by inability to function outside of school or structured
environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness
in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical
usage.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- 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... - Cult of Aloneness:
The need for autonomy at all costs
usually at the expense of long'term relationships.... - Metaphasia:
An inability to perceive metaphor.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Mental Ground Zero:
The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping
of the atomic bomb
frequently, a shopping mall. -- Douglas Coupland,... - Option Paralysis:
The tendency, when given unlimited choices
to make none. [Often experienced when asked what kind... - Anti-Sabbatical:
A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a
limited period of time (often one year)
The intention is to raise enough funds to partake in... - Emallgration:
Migration toward lower-tech, lower-information environments
containing a lessened emphasis on consumerism
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Power Mist:
The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be
diffuse and preclude crisp articulation
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
