My Gen./Hipsters (?)

This is Jack pre-PunkRockProm
his beret got nicked at the show, there were a bunch of old people there, he said, that definitely do not go here, & I think he's worn my makeup more than I have by this point in the year.

on an unrelated note:
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
I'm sure here are a few more articles like this out there, this one just happened to be my friend's away message.

This article kindof talks about something we discussed in creative nonfiction one class. We were workshoping this girls piece-the assignment had been to do five 'beginnings'. I had done five different beginnings to the same story, another girl had done five stories in Manhattan-and this girl was describing the beginnings of five different friendships.
But a lot of them started like this: talking, getting high, smoking, running in and out of cars, being drunk, general movement..... (standard teen things, right?)
But Celia, our professor, saw this as a representation of our generation. The moment, the constantly doing something for the sake of doing something. Because we aren't really rebelling against anything, this isn't the 60's (or 70's, or 80's, or 90's). And we all talked about how yes, from the moment we are born, it seems, our life is set. We go to middle school and get good grades so that we can get placed in good classes in high school were we try to get good grades so that we can go to a good college so that we can go out and have a good job and have a house and a family and then we have to save for retirement and we look towards a life that hasn't really been lived, just constantly looking towards the next moment. And that, because of that, we do things just to do things. And perhaps it also has to do with a dissatisfaction with reality; escapism.
Celia said that maybe our generation has a sense of fatalism because of 9/11 and the war, so nothing matters (cue in the apathy and the drugs).
But also, it might be a certain layer that I'm talking about (mostly white middle class that otherwise has no real claim to be 'interesting' http://theredgill.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/hipsters/ --> this article also talks about gender roles, authenticity, middle class whiteness, and sense that there are no means to make the change that should be made, electronic communication...)

I don't know if I agree, but still, it's interesting to think about what 'my generation' is, how it will be looked at in the future, how it's viewed now...and also I live in an isolated pocket of a college, so um...I don't really know about the general public right now. it's terrible.