| Generation X, Douglas Coupland |
[04 Mar 2005|07:00pm] |
Shopping Is Not Creating
"It's a Texlahoma story," she says, much to our pleasure, for Texlahoma is a mythic world we created in which to set many of our stories. It's a sad Everypace, where citizens are always getting fired from their jobs at 7-Eleven and where the kids do drugs and practice the latest dance crazes at the local lake, where they also fantasize about being adult and pulling welfare-check scams as they inspect each other's skin for chemical burns from the lake water.
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