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I'm 32, and I've been developing a curmudgeonly attitude towards younger people for the past few years or so. What you mention is one of the things that annoys me- I see 15 and 16 year-olds acting like punk music is theirs, and it makes me want to say to them "I was listening to punk when it was still punk, so you know nothing about it!", but then I realize that every generation (at that age) is like this at some point. For instance, I really gravitated towards proto-punk music and 1930's -1960's folk and blues, even though they were decades before my time.

So I feel like a hypocrite at times, but I can't help feeling that disdain for young kids who talk out their asses or hold dearly to an idealism or belief system that they don't truly comprehend.

I don't really have a point, other than I agree with what you're saying on one hand, and on the other hand, I can understand (to a degree) why the kids do it...I just wish they'd be original and create something worth owning, as the new generation.

I'm really feeling old now...