Summary Of Generation Sell

In the article “Generation Sell” Professor William Deresiewicz says that today’s generation, the hipsters are so involved with social media that we don’t think about anything else besides what’s happening in the internet. We are so connected to it that we can’t step away from it and we want to know the new trends that are popular and that everybody is using. We are so focused on how we appear to others that we will do anything to fit in and look pleasing to them. We have turned from being hippies, punks, slackers to a generation of selling ourselves to others. In “Generation Sell” William Deresiewicz talks about the different types of social groups that there has been over the past decades. He says that the hippies were all about love, the beatniks aimed at ecstasy, and the punks were about rage and anger, the slackers were about not involving in anything; but today’s generation are the hipsters. The hipsters have been a durable culture because unlike the hippies, punks, or slackers they don’t have a “rebellion, rejection or dissent” to
In his article, Deresiewicz talks about how the hipsters are nice, kind, and earnest to others because besides the fact that they are trying to be nice, they have the idea of “I’ll-be-whoever-you-want-me-to-be-personality.” He says that the use of social media has made them sell themselves and treat themselves as business. That they are