101-ism:
The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all
aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all
aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- 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... - Power Mist:
The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be
diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Option Paralysis:
The tendency, when given unlimited choices,
to make none. [Often experienced when asked what kind... - Knee-Jerk Irony:
The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive
matter of course in everyday conversation.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - 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... - Cult of Aloneness:
The need for autonomy at all costs,
usually at the expense of long'term relationships.... - Metaphasia:
An inability to perceive metaphor.
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Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Paper Rabies:
Hypersensitivity to littering.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation... - Spectacularism:
A fascination with extreme situations.
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
