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• Poverty Lurks: Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era parents.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Safety net-ism: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts.
  Usually parents. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- 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...
• 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...
• Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• Paper Rabies: Hypersensitivity to littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• Spectacularism: A fascination with extreme situations. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• The love of meat prevents any real change. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X