Time's Are A Changin'

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall..."

This section from "Howl" defined a time and a culture, that is still apparent in today's society. As long as there is a society, and standards among economic classes, there will be a visible divide among people. Walking down Queen Street West you cant help but notice the 'anti-conformist' hipsters, rubbing their vintage bottles, and waiting for their 'skinny jeanie' to appear in a cloud of Marlboro smoke. To grant them wishes of 'unique' American Apparel clothing, and musty ol' jackets covered in their Great Grandmothers perfume.
In today's society every non-conformist-hipster teen seems to 'leave to follow.' Leaving traditional trends and fashion, to follow a larger, easily spotted corporation we call 'Trendy'.
I'm lying you say?
Then ask the narcissistic 'man'ikin standing out front Abercrombie why he chooses "AnF" versus the latest attic find. Unfortunately to your dismay, the reasoning boils down to much more then what appeared under his Christmas Tree.
But whose complaining, I'm just making it apparent that its too bad our lives are run by such a meaningless thread.
And of course I'm going to speak/type my opinion because the "I'm going to write a letter" line, has now become, "I'm going to write a letter - many of them - on my blog - for no one to read."