3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it’s not quite the same thing.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Failure is authentic, and because it’s authentic, it’s real and genuine, and because of that, it’s a pure state of being.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they’re going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they’re going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland If you don’t have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can’t expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn’t arrive.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Everybody has basically the same family, it’s just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland I think that in the future, clocks won’t say three o’clock anymore. They’ll just get right to the point and rename three o’clock ‘Pepsi.’
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
