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Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand.

Tahereh Mafi

Armanism:

    After Giorgio Armani; an obsession with mimicking the seamless

and (more importantly) *controlled* ethos of Italian couture.  Like

Japanese Minimalism, Armanism reflects a profound inner need for

control.

        -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated

           Culture"

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Japanese Minimalism:

    The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by

rootless career-hopping young people.

        -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated

           Culture"

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Caf'e Minimalism:

    To espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting

into practice any of its tenets.

        -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated

           Culture"

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Conspicuous Minimalism:

    A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution.  The

nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and

intellectual superiority.

        -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated

           Culture"

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