„You see when you’re middle-class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history will never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all hapinesses are sterile, all sadnesses go unpitied"
„shin jin rui: that’s what Japanese newspapers call people like those kids in their twenties at the office – new human beings…we have the same group over here and it’s just as large, but it doesn’t have a name – an X generation – purposefully hiding itself”
„most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives, the rest is filler, and that at the end of our lives, most of us will be lucky if any of those moments connect together to form a story that anyone would find remotely interesting”
Ø McJob: low pay, low prestige, low future job in service
Ø Powerty Jet Set: group of people who gave up job-stability and permanent residence for chronic traveling
Ø Mid-twenties-breakdown: mental collapse caused by an inability to function outside pf school or structured environments coupled with the realization of one’s essential aloneness
Ø Anti-sabbatical: job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time to raise enough funds to partake in other personally more meaningful activities
Ø Poorochondria: hypochondria derived from not having medical insurance
Ø Architectural indigestion: obsessive need to live in a cool architectural environment
Ø Occupational slumming: taking a job well beneath one’s skill or education level as a means of retreat from adult responsabilities.
Ø Café-minimalism: to espouse a philosophy of minimalism without putting into practice
Ø Tele-parablizing: moral used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plots
Ø Option paralysis: The tendecy when given unlimited choices, to make none
Ø Knee-jerk-irony: the tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation
Ø Obscurism: peppering daily life with obscure references
Ø McJob: low pay, low prestige, low future job in service
Ø Powerty Jet Set: group of people who gave up job-stability and permanent residence for chronic traveling
Ø Mid-twenties-breakdown: mental collapse caused by an inability to function outside pf school or structured environments coupled with the realization of one’s essential aloneness
Ø Anti-sabbatical: job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time to raise enough funds to partake in other personally more meaningful activities
Ø Poorochondria: hypochondria derived from not having medical insurance
Ø Architectural indigestion: obsessive need to live in a cool architectural environment
Ø Occupational slumming: taking a job well beneath one’s skill or education level as a means of retreat from adult responsabilities.
Ø Café-minimalism: to espouse a philosophy of minimalism without putting into practice
Ø Tele-parablizing: moral used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plots
Ø Option paralysis: The tendecy when given unlimited choices, to make none
Ø Knee-jerk-irony: the tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation
Ø Obscurism: peppering daily life with obscure references
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