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• Safety net-ism: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts.
  Usually parents. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Power Mist: The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
  [Often experienced when asked what kind of salad dressing one wants....
• Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 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...
• Cult of Aloneness: The need for autonomy at all costs, usually at the expense of long'term relationships.
  Often brought about by overly high expectations of others. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• Paper Rabies: Hypersensitivity to littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• Spectacularism: A fascination with extreme situations. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X