Another gem from VDH. A sample:

Hip is a sort of Neanderthal mentality that is terrified of serious thinking, and thus substitutes the superfluous for the profound.

Palestinians are hip in a way that Israelis are not; but pro-Palestinian reporters stay in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv without a clue why the two cities are different from Ramallah. Hip is loud support for the Dream Act, but avoidance of places like Mendota or San Joaquin, or any serious contemplation about why millions of Mexican nationals wish to cross their northern but not their southern border. Hip is shopping at Whole Foods, but supporting more food stamps for those who shop at a distant Food 4 Less and weigh more than you do. Hip decries school choice and vouchers, but means Sidwell Friends is under armed guards for your own progenies.

"Hip" is a lot like "cool."

I remember when I first understood the meaning of "cool" in 7th grade. Some of the bigger tougher kids were stealing school equipment from the gym. One them asked me menacingly if I was "cool" with that.

I figure all the "cool" and "hip" people will be going to a place that is the opposite of cool.

Must-must-must read!

Outstanding. Agree this is a must read.

One to share, especially with liberal friends, relatives, and acquaintances.

Must read.
It is the attitude I observed on both election days when our dear leader was chosen, although it was, in my opinion, severely lowered this time around.

These are people who want to be part of the herd. It gives them their identity. If celebrities opposed abortion all these morons would too. Shallow, superficial and stupid. We´ve always had the herd, it just was never this big.

Perfect! It is why grossly over-paid "entertainers" are never bothered by protests, or guilt, about their wealth but job-producing capitalists like the Koch brothers are scorned.

I could see Sascha Barron Von Cohen having a field day with this.
But he is the epitome of hip.

Or, as Orwell said long ago:

"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. … Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals."

Obama poses at being hip but is transparently not.

Sorry, but if you "feel hip at Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods," you aren´t, daddy-o.

Should be a nightly segment on O´Reilly.

The terms “hip” and “cool” are statements of approval that add cultural nuance to “right” and “wrong.” The more a culture is warped, the greater the distance between the consensus view of what being hip and cool is and what’s actually right becomes.

Hitler thought the Schutz-Staffel (SS) was cool. Stalin thought the NKVD secret police (which later became the KGB) was cool. The young followers of Mao thought it was hip to become Red Guards and spy on their parents for the State.

I don´t know anything about "hip." I just remember Kramer was called a hipster doofus.