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• 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...
• Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Bambification: The mental conversion of flesh and blood living creatures into cartoon characters possessing borgeois Judeo-Christian attitudes and morals.
  -- 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....
• O'propriation: The inclusion of advertising, packaging, and entertainment jargon from earlier eras in everyday speech for ironic and/or comic effec
  Kathleen's Favorite Dead Celebrity party was tons o' fun" or "Dave really thinks of himself as a zany, nutty, wacky, and madcap guy, doesn't he?...
• Celebrity Shadenfreude: Lurid thrills derived from talking about celebrity deaths.
  -- 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...
• Spectacularism: A fascination with extreme situations. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• You might not count in the New Order. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X