Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
Douglas CouplandThe only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
Douglas CouplandKnee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
Douglas CouplandI wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.
Douglas Coupland