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
The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional
safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Divorce Assumption:
A form of Safety Net-ism, the belief that if a marriage
doesn't work out,
then there is no problem because partners can simply... - Pull-The-Plug, Slice The Pie:
A fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net
worth of his parents.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Poverty Lurks:
Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era parents.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Diseases for Kisses (Hyperkarma):
A deeply rooted belief that punishment will somehow always be
far greater than the crime:
ozone holes for littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Derision Preemption:
A life-style tactic; the refusal to go out on any sort of
emotional limb so as to avoid mockery from peers.
Derision Preemption is the main goal of Knee-Jerk Irony... - Cryptotechnophobia:
The secret belief that technology is more of a menace than a
boon.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - QFM:
Quelle Fashion Mistake. "It was really QFM, I mean painter
pants?
That's 1979 beyond belief!" -- Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Paper Rabies:
Hypersensitivity to littering.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation... - Spectacularism:
A fascination with extreme situations.
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
