What is it with Douglas Coupland?

Is there something about the years between age 18 and age 22 during which we're especially impressionable?

These are the years when I found the authors that influenced me the most; Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Martin Amis, Douglas Coupland.

These were the years when I couldn't make myself believe in religion anymore, when I accepted my atheism.

These were some of my best motorcycle years.

These were the years when I became painfully libertarian.



These things had such a profound influence on me, but they were all so f*cking random.

If I hadn't taken an odd English class titled "Apocalypse Eventually" I might not have found those authors.
If I hadn't taken Econ 309, I never would have become a libertarian.
And motorcycles? God only knows.

Even in retrospect I have a poor understanding of my Black Swans.