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I have to come up with something to say after a lull in my blogging other than "Oh noes! I've been neglecting my blahgging!" That shiz iz stupes, yo. I apologize, the things I type are sometimes stupifyingly inane because I was born during the eighties, which makes me a member of Generation Y, as depicted in the Diablo Cody-penned film Juno in a somewhat exaggerated form.

So...we had an election and stuff. But the nation still appears to be on the highway to hell (ac/dc roolz), so I guess I'm just ambivalent. As to personal life, the good news is I'm feeling great. The bad news is I'm coming up from a two week or so period of lethargy, anxiety, and blahness...and I'm somewhat hypochondriacally worrying that I'm having some sort of late-onset bipolar disorder. Honestly, if that's the case, I think that totes beats just depression period. Hoo nose.

I skimmed this article saying that Obama's election represents the death of hipsterism because sincerity is replacing cynicism among the youth of the nation. It makes a good point, but I think hipsterdom could just be entering into a transistional phase where their ilk becomes less dominated by the cynical Gen-X influenced people who are growing up and moving to the suburbs and are being replaced by the Gen-Y types who are coming up and are plenty postmodern and ironic, but are still sincere and care about helping people and doing good things and stuff. It's like, y'know, postmodernism is about local, small, concrete action whereas modernism is about a grand narrative of revolutionary change...so the crest of hipsterdom is yet to come, but it will be politically active in a small-scale, volunteerism, Jesus-y service way whereas hippies were about marches and revolutions and manifestoes and grand theories and power complexes and shit. Like if you're going to tear down a wall, it's more effective to make tiny little chips than it is to just push really hard on it or yell at it.

Some one should beat the shit out of me for writing those last few sentences. That's so fucking jejune, speculating about critical theory and generational change and political action. Don't actually beat the shit out of me, but I deserve to be, in theory.

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