Actually John says one thing that definitively proves his lack of
hip. He claims that to use the word hip is itself not hip. But in fact
the hippness embedded in the word hip transcends hippness of the
moment. Those who are truly hip understand the eternal hippness that is
contained in the word hip itself. Those who believe that to use the
word hip at a particular point in time is not hip because of the
hippness standards that may exist in the fads of the moment do not
really understand the ultimate hippness in the nature of the word. The
bottom line is that truly hip people understand that it is always hip
to use the word hip regardless of the pseudo standards of hippness
during any time period or the hippness standards of any particular
generation. You dig?