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• Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 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...
• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Dorian Graying: The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs of aging.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Virgin Runway: A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has chosen it.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Recurving: Leaving one job to take another that pays less but places one back on the learning curve.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Obscurism: The practice of peppering daily life with obscure references (forgotten films, dead TV stars, unpopular books, defunct countries, etc.
  ) as a subliminal means of showcasing both one's education and one's wish to disassociate from the world of mass culture....
• McJob: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector.
  Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one....