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• 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 BMW." -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 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. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Cafe Minimalism: To espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting into practice any of its tenets.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Japanese Minimalism: The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by rootless career-hopping young people.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Armanism: After Georgio Armani: an obsession with mimicking the seamless and (more importantly) *controlled* ethos of Italian couture.
  Lake Japanese Minimalism, Armanism reflects a profound inner need for control....
• 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 substance abuse, and show a willingness to talk about Armageddon after three drinks....
• 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 X...
• Overboarding: Overcompensating for fears about the future by plunging headlong into a job or life-style seemingly unrelated to one's previous life intere
  i.e., Amway sales, aerobics, the Republican party, a career in law, cults, McJobs....
• Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X