Conspicuous Minimalism:
A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution. The
nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and
intellectual superiority.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution. The
nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and
intellectual superiority.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Status Substitution:
Using an object with intellectual or fashionable cachet to
substitute for an object that is merely pricey
Brian, you left your copy of Camus in your brother's... - 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... - Cafe Minimalism:
To espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting
into practice any of its tenets
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Japanese Minimalism:
The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by
rootless career-hopping young people
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Armanism:
After Georgio Armani: an obsession with mimicking the seamless
and (more importantly) *controlled
ethos of Italian couture. Lake Japanese Minimalism... - Yuppie Wannabes:
An X Generation subgroup that believes the myth of a yuppie
life-style being both satisfying and viable
Tend to be highly in debt, involved in some form of... - Boomer Envy:
Envy of material wealth and longe-range material security
accrued by older members of the baby boom generation by virtue of
fortunate births
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Overboarding:
Overcompensating for fears about the future by plunging
headlong into a job or life-style seemingly unrelated to one's previous
life interests
i.e., Amway sales, aerobics, the Republican party,... - Metaphasia:
An inability to perceive metaphor.
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
