The Emperor's New mall:
The popular notion that shopping malls exist only on the
insides and have no exterior. The suspension of visual belief
engendered by this notion allows shoppers to pretend that large,
cement blocks thrust into their environment do not, in fact, exist.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The popular notion that shopping malls exist only on the
insides and have no exterior. The suspension of visual belief
engendered by this notion allows shoppers to pretend that large,
cement blocks thrust into their environment do not, in fact, exist.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Mental Ground Zero:
The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping
of the atomic bomb
frequently, a shopping mall. -- Douglas Coupland,... - The Tens:
The first decade of a new century.
-- Douglas Coupland
Generation... - You might not count in the New Order.
-- Douglas Coupland
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The secret belief that technology is more of a menace than a
boon
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - It exists only if the DM allows it to
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Describes the false sense of community experienced among
coworkers in an office environment
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Squires:
The most common X generation subgroup and the only subgroup
given to breeding
Squires exist almost exclusively in couples and are... - Strangelove Reproduction:
Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
believes in the future
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Personal Tabu:
A small rule for living, bordering on a superstition
that allows one to cope with everyday life in the absence...
