The other night I helped my friend Eve dye her hair & we took some wicked photos which go pretty perfectly with the wise words of Mr Douglas Coupland. All the below are extracts for the Future Legend at the end of his new novel Player One. They're basically new definitions & they're pretty frickin' cool.
Aloneism
A recognition of the fact that it is a burdensome amount of work to be an individual, and also that many human beings were not necessarily cut out to be individuals and are much happier being lost inside a collective environment or a self-denying belief system. Individualism may, in fact, be a form of brain mutation not evenly spread throughout the population, a mutation that poses a threat to those not possessing it, hence the ongoing war between religion and secularism.
Attack-Moderates
The result of a common political tactic used by members of extreme orthodoxies. By forcing people in the political middle to polarize over issue about which they don't feel polar, the desired end state is achieved - one in which the hyper amplification of what was not very much to begin with creates a tone of hysteria amid daily cultural discourse. This resulting hysteria becomes a political took used by the instigators to push through agendas that would never have been possible in a non-hysterical situation.
Catastrophasic Shifts
Enormous life-changing decisions that are delayed until a crisis has been reached. In most cases this is the worst time to be making such decisions.
Centennial Blindness
The inability of most people to understand future time frames longer than about a hundred years. Many people have its cousin, Decimal Blindness - the inability to think beyond a ten-year time span - and some people have the higher-speed version, Crastinal Blindness - the inability to think past tomorrow.
Collapse Attraction
The situation in which people are usually at their most attractive and interesting shortly before a total personality collapse. While some of us are attracted to those who are vulnerable - because it makes us feel good by comparison, or it makes us feel good to be able to help, or to think we can help - it also turns out that if you are convinced that nobody could possibly like you, you often become less inhibited. Not caring gives you a bulletproof aura of mystery and aloofness.
Cover Buzz
The sensation felt when hearing a cover version of a song one already knows.
Me Goggles
The inability to accurately perceive ourselves as others do.
Rosenwald's Theorem
The belief that all the wrong people have self-esteem.
Standard Deviation
Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness, yet it is the feeling of uniqueness that convinces us we have souls.
Why We Keep Our Distance
Once you've seen a person go psycho, you can never look at him or her the same way ever again.
Word Love.
A recognition of the fact that it is a burdensome amount of work to be an individual, and also that many human beings were not necessarily cut out to be individuals and are much happier being lost inside a collective environment or a self-denying belief system. Individualism may, in fact, be a form of brain mutation not evenly spread throughout the population, a mutation that poses a threat to those not possessing it, hence the ongoing war between religion and secularism.
Attack-Moderates
The result of a common political tactic used by members of extreme orthodoxies. By forcing people in the political middle to polarize over issue about which they don't feel polar, the desired end state is achieved - one in which the hyper amplification of what was not very much to begin with creates a tone of hysteria amid daily cultural discourse. This resulting hysteria becomes a political took used by the instigators to push through agendas that would never have been possible in a non-hysterical situation.
Catastrophasic Shifts
Enormous life-changing decisions that are delayed until a crisis has been reached. In most cases this is the worst time to be making such decisions.
Centennial Blindness
The inability of most people to understand future time frames longer than about a hundred years. Many people have its cousin, Decimal Blindness - the inability to think beyond a ten-year time span - and some people have the higher-speed version, Crastinal Blindness - the inability to think past tomorrow.
Collapse Attraction
The situation in which people are usually at their most attractive and interesting shortly before a total personality collapse. While some of us are attracted to those who are vulnerable - because it makes us feel good by comparison, or it makes us feel good to be able to help, or to think we can help - it also turns out that if you are convinced that nobody could possibly like you, you often become less inhibited. Not caring gives you a bulletproof aura of mystery and aloofness.
Cover Buzz
The sensation felt when hearing a cover version of a song one already knows.
Me Goggles
The inability to accurately perceive ourselves as others do.
Rosenwald's Theorem
The belief that all the wrong people have self-esteem.
Standard Deviation
Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness, yet it is the feeling of uniqueness that convinces us we have souls.
Why We Keep Our Distance
Once you've seen a person go psycho, you can never look at him or her the same way ever again.
Word Love.
Love those definitions. I now also want to dye my hair purple once again ;)
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ohmegosh, where do you work? I want to get my mitts on more Moomin stuff!!
Lovely. You're on my blogroll :) x hivennn.
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