# Quote — Douglas Coupland, JPod

> “You feel chilled because you have no character. You’re a depressing assemblage of pop culture influences and cancelled emotions, driven by the sputtering engine of only the most banal form of capitalism. You spend your life feeling as if you’re perpetually on the brink of being obsolete — whether it’s labour market obsolescence or cultural unhipness. And it’s all catching up with you. You live and die by the development cycle. You’re glamorized drosophila flies, with the company regulating your life cycles at whim. If it isn’t a budget-driven eighteen-month game production schedule, it’s a five-year hardware obsolescence schedule. Every five years you have to throw away everything you know and learn a whole new set of hardware and software specs, relegating what was once critical to our lives to the cosmic slag heap.”

- Author: [Douglas Coupland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland.md)
- Book: [JPod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Coupland#JPod_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod/you-feel-chilled

## More from this book

> “What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?”
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> “Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod/what-do-lesbians.md)

> It turns out that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony — which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. I can’t imagine anything worse than that. Okay, maybe I can, but imagine reading the morning newspaper and believing it all to be true on some level.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod/it-turns-out.md)

> Older staffers don’t even bother coming in on weekends. Where is the sleep-crazed, Pepsi-fuelled one-point-oh tech environment that can only be created by having no green vegetables, no sex and no life?
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> Cowboy said, “I miss the greed of the 1990s bubble.”
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> John Doe said, “I miss the possibility of unearned wealth.”
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> Bree said, “I miss the possibility of doing something Apple, something one-point-oh.”
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> Evil Mark said, “I miss people having Hot Wheels tracks set up in their cubicles.”
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> Gord-O walked into the pod. “You can’t miss the nineties, because you weren’t there. They were great. Too bad you screwed-up twits missed out on the party.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/jpod/older-staffers-dont.md)