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Human Potential Movement
Fast food for inner growth, California-style; a combination of mental reprogramming techniques and smile-button optimism that expunges any last vestige of renegade individuality, leaving us to think, speak and emote like replicants from some nightmarish sci-fi classic. |
Human Resources Department
Corporate nomenclature intended to confer greater dignity on personnel managers while reducing everyone else in the company to the status of bauxite or wood-pulp. |
Humbug
A fraudulence that offends common sense; also a quaint epithet that could be hurled more often at college faculty meetings, poetry readings, campaign speeches and new-age consciousness workshops. |
Hunk
A man freely viewed as a sex object by women who refuse to be viewed as such themselves, and generally aren't anyway. |
Hype
Fanfare for a flea. |
Hyperactive Children
A cheap and relatively clean energy source that might be put to good use after we deplete the planet's supply of fossil fuels. |
Hyphenated Surnames
The conjoining of family monickers in emulation of the gentry; a self-limiting disease that will terminate abruptly when, for example, Jason Smithers-Hetherington ties the knot with Tiffany Schofield-Channing. |
Hypochondria
One's own body viewed as a physiological minefield; a condition caused by overexposure to medical findings that link our social life, body type, bald spots or snoring habits to the increased likelihood of developing a fatal disease. |
