Douglas Coupland's book Generation X

Posted by Jan den Breejen on February 14, 2000 at 07:14:49:

Recommendation:

Read This:
Douglas Coupland
Generation X
Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Copyright © 1991 Douglas Campbell Coupland
ISBN 0-349-10839-0
An Abacus Book

Random quote from the book:

Ultra Short Term Nostalgia: Homesickness for the extremely recent past: "God, things seemed so much better in the world last week."

The book seems to depict three archetypical colors of generations:
a. the baby boomers >>> hedonistic E7-ish generation
b. the Reagan-yuppy generation of the 1980's >>> E3-ish generation
c. the sad story of the generation drop outs; youth that hates the superficiality of todays E3 culture and makes the choice NOT to have a career and improve society by not participating in it, telling each other romantic sad bedtime stories about the summerevening a long time ago when they saw their parents dancing in the sun.

Jan

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• I don't see that Cory 14:33:59 02/14/00 (2)
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