Why is everyone trying to be indie?

Why is everyone trying so hard to be so different?

• I know it has to do with the whole hipster phase which is becoming SUPER popular and intensely annoying these days. But I also find this whole phenomenon particular interesting. I have friends (for some reason they are usually always rich ??? :/) that want to be first person to have done something and to be unique and be the only one who owns something, listens to a certain band, or knows about a new song. It's like a competition for them and they know I really don't give a **** about it all so they leave me alone but I hear them complaining to me about how I listened to her waaay before she was famous! or I posted that song on facebook before the band's facebook page even posted it. OR EVEN, GET THIS, I used Macs before everyone else and now you see them everywhere, ugghhhh. JEEEZZ YOU GIVES A ****. But that's not the point of this question. This question is more of a sociological/psychological question. Why feel the need to do this. With more than 6 billion people on the planet you can hardly be that unique so just give it up already. But I get that's precisely why they do. They want to feel like they make a difference in just existing because they are so different. And something else I noticed is that people who are rich (not all of you I know!!) are always trying to separate themselves from "the masses". What is up with that?

• Answer:

  So, do YOU aspire to be the exact same clone as 7 billion other people? What's the point, then of existing, if you're SO easily replaced by someone, ANY one, else? Don't know about you, but I don't have other people's thoughts. I have my own thoughts. So I'm different than all the rest. But, out of 7 billion people, how do you PROVE that? A little of this, a little of that, anything to be noticeably different. "All in all you're just another brick in the wall." ~ Pink Floyd "I'm more than that. I know I am... At least, I think I must be." ~ Moody Blues