Vi fortsätter resan in i Generation X:s begreppsvärld.
Här är sex uttryck från mr Coupelands slagfärdiga generationsanalys av Generation X:
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.
Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
Successophobia: The fear that if one is successful, then one’s personal needs will be forgotten and one will no longer have one’s childish needs catered to
Veal-Fattening Pen: Small, cramped office workstations built of fabric-covered disassemblable wall partitions and inhabited by junior staff members. Named for the pre-slaughter cubicles used by the cattle industry.
Virgin Runway: A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has ever chosen it.
Voter’s Block: The attempt, however futile, to register dissent with the current political system by simply not voting
Vill man ha en djupare förståelse för dessa uttryck kan jag rekommendera Generation X