Generation x coupland5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The OED cites Generation X in its entry for McJob, but credits a Washington Post headline from 1986 as the first use. Some of the near-100 such entries, like McJob – the first in the book – have become established in broader usage. (The symptoms for Historical Underdosing are the same.) Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts. To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. For example: Ultra short term nostalgia (unhyphenated in the book) is ‘homesickness for the extremely recent past: God, things seemed so much better in the world last week.’ This had special resonance after the UK’s Brexit vote last month, as did Historical Overdosing: It remains a rewarding read, inventive and humorous, with a sincerity unspoiled by its often sardonic views.Ī salient feature of the book is an ingenious, comical, cultural glossary supplementing the text as it unfolds. A quarter-century after publication seemed a good time to revisit Douglas Coupland’s self-consciously zeitgeisty novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. ![]()
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