My views on "hipness" whether you like them or not...

I've always considered the idea of "hip", or cool taken alternately, to be an overrated concept designed, unconsiously or not, by the top dogs to keep those currently in power at the top of the heirarchy.  Whether it is applied to minor heirarchies such as a high school popularity system or more inclusive heirarchies such as the American Government or just plain popularity systems around the country.  The "hip" keep power by making their views the ideal or the pinnacle of life's acheivements making the "non-hip" work that much harder to be accepted into the group.  Of course given these statements I obviously consider myself outside or at least as small of a part as possible of the "hip heirarchy".