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• 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 seek a divorce.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Pull-The-Plug, Slice The Pie: A fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net worth of his parents.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Poverty Lurks: Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era parents.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 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 X...
• 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. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Cryptotechnophobia: The secret belief that technology is more of a menace than a boon.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• QFM: Quelle Fashion Mistake. "It was really QFM, I mean painter pants?
  That's 1979 beyond belief!" -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Paper Rabies: Hypersensitivity to littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• Spectacularism: A fascination with extreme situations. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X