you've asked we good people to supply a name for a concept that will jell once a name is given

Well yes, milum - but minor little niceties like that never stopped us before.

Reminds me for some reason of RD Laing's "poem" in Knots about the finger and the moon:
http://www.oikos.org/knots7.htm

futurecalilisticallidosis
This would, of course, be the pathological - often chronic - condition whereby the sufferer believes the future must be the same as the present. A classic example:
"I have bad breath now, therefore I will always have bad breath"

Or am I confusing it with "futurecalilistihalitosis"?