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This reads as a blunt moral judgment, aimed at the idea of people switching off empathy and responsibility. It can be taken to mean that detachment from the effects of one’s actions is not neutral, but ugly and corrosive. It lands when someone is excusing cold behavior, and the speaker wants to name that distance as something ethically offensive.
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About Douglas Coupland
Canadian visual artist and writer
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian visual artist and writer, known for his 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. Trained first as a sculptor, he became widely known through fiction rather than through the visual arts. Generation X brought him international attention and helped popularize the terms Generation X and McJob. He later published many books, including novels, short story collections, and essay collections, and also wrote as a columnist and contributor for periodicals such as the New York Times, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and Wired.
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Books by Douglas Coupland
JPod
2006
Miss Wyoming Uk Edition
2000
The gum thief
2006
Hey Nostradamus!
2003
Shampoo planet
1992