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
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
Related:
- Me-ism:
A search by an individual, in the absence of training in the
traditional religious tenets,
to formulate a personally tailored religion by himself... - Successophobia:
The fear that if one is successful,
then one's personal needs will be forgotten and one... - Tele-parablizing:
Morals used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plots:
"That's just like the episode where Jan lost her glasses... - Knee-Jerk Irony:
The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive
matter of course in everyday conversation.
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... - Virgin Runway:
A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has
chosen it.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Dorian Graying:
The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs
of aging.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Strangelove Reproduction:
Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
believes in the future.
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
From the same category:
- When in doubt,
drink heavily... - I'm a misanthrope -
what's your f#$&ing problem... - A woman must be a genius to create a good
husband... - Tongue tied & twisted,
just an earthbound misfit I... - When you asked me to live in sin with you,
I didn't know you meant sloth...
