Tele-parablizing:
Morals used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plots:
"That's just like the episode where Jan lost her glasses!"
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Morals used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plots:
"That's just like the episode where Jan lost her glasses!"
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Personal Tabu:
A small rule for living, bordering on a superstition,
that allows one to cope with everyday life in the absence... - Knee-Jerk Irony:
The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive
matter of course in everyday conversation.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Bambification:
The mental conversion of flesh and blood living creatures into
cartoon characters possessing borgeois Judeo-Christian attitudes and
morals.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Obscurism:
The practice of peppering daily life with obscure references
(forgotten films,
dead TV stars, unpopular books, defunct countries,... - O'propriation:
The inclusion of advertising, packaging,
and entertainment jargon from earlier eras in everyday... - Celebrity Shadenfreude:
Lurid thrills derived from talking about celebrity deaths.
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... - Spectacularism:
A fascination with extreme situations.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - You might not count in the New Order.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation...
