Defending Generation Y Half-Heartily (Of Course), Sorry For Stupidity

I read an article just now on the "cool" of my generation.  I thought I would write a little bit about it and incorporate something else that I wanted to say as well.  The article tells us that irony is the ethos of the day, and that the hipster in the archetype of Generation Y, or Millennials.  It's interesting to think that I am part of a Generation now.  When I was fifteen I read Generation X by Douglas Coupland (along with most of his other books) and thought it was so cool.  Getting away from the world to live out in no where and drink Zima.  Now, that's me.  Except, I got away from the world by moving to Burlington, VT (a little Portland, Oregon really) and instead of drinking Zima it's microbrews.

So the article talked about the different ways that we are ironic, wearing silly clothes and liking old things, even taking new things and making them old - Instagram.  All this being instant nostalgia and ironic- a defense mechanism we use, I guess.  If we insult ourselves no one can do it for us.  So the hipster is a rebirth of the cool beatnik with a dorky self awareness that yeah, we're played out.  I guess, interesting, I guess.

I then read an article about someone who read the article (blog-ception) and who talked about how unimportant it is to talk about it.  I think this article is kinda funny because isn't it the hip that initially love making fun of the hip and then eventually find talking about the hip to be overdone so they hate talking about the hip?  Actually I don't know either, "cool" is so difficult.

Oh yeah the articles are right here:

How to Live Without Irony

New York Times Explores Hipster Irony

Anyways, my only comment I wanted to add is the lameness of original article to start talking about their generation.  Said Generation X.  The 90s who "actively did not care."  Feminism, Berlin Wall, racial issues, all of these were at the forefront back then and after Y2K everything went to shit.  Funny, I love the 90s- if I could live in any year it would be 1994.  Mainly due to music but yeah, I kinda jam on that slacker style.  But to try to fool yourselves - Generation X - that you were better than us, is such shit.  My main reason?  Because the previous generation fucked us over.

It's not completely your guys fault though.  You had the traditional Baby Boomers to raise you with morals and a organized rebellious hippie flair.  Then you guys listened to too much Nirvana and Jerry Springer was invented and now everyone I know is from broken homes and takes a lot of mediation.  I'm glad "stay together for the kids" is not the mentality anymore but you need to sympathize with the difficulty of split parents.  I dealt with it well but i know many people who were really hurt when the parents broke up.  Drugs are also something I feel is new in the parents bonding world.  I know a lot of people who get fucked up with their parents.  That's weird, right?

Technology is also a big deal.  People say we are technologically dependent   Yeah it is, because it basically raised us.  Sesame and School House Rock, Bill Nye were our biggest teachers.  A lot of us grew up looking at screens.  And what's on these screens impact us too.  Sex and violence.  So we are desensitized tech junkies and have access to too much information and porn via internet.  That can fuck with some heads don't you think?  So we like the idea of the past and our more innocent childhoods, and are all insecure, and have a handful of diagnosis by age 16.  I can name 5 girls of the top of my head who have been diagnosed bi-polar.  And I didn't even have to look at my friends list on Fasbuk for think of them.

There are actually a bunch of reasons Generation Y is fucked up but I'm not writing a damn thesis.  I did want to use that to be my excuse for the poor writing in my first blog entries when I made this blog.  I sound dumb and said "lol" too much.  That is not me, I read too many books to sound like that.  But, I was worried people would find my blog and I didn't really want to be too much of myself so I thought if I sounded dumber it would be more widely acceptable.  I believe on my very first post I mention that I was defensive about it.  But now I am not really, and I just want to write.  I can't write well, and I don't know how to be too creative when I'm drugged up on so many anti-depressants, but I want to write.   I hope I can write a little more respectively than "lol."

Now I will put photos I have recently taken with my iPhone because, I am self-absorbed.  These will include: me drinking pink champagne, my brother in American Apparel, my new record, and a bento I made yesterday.