The most hip person that I know goes by the name of Jon. In many ways this kid is hip, and in some ways he is not. I believe that he is hip by his material possessions. If materials possessions can make you hip, then this kid has it. He drives a new white Avalanche, and wears name brand name apparel. He is currently enrolled at BSU, works at the Blue and Orange Store in the Mall, has a good looking girlfriend, and likes to spend his weekends hanging out with his friends. This is really my definition of Hip, the way you portray yourself.
How does this kid fit in to the definition of Leland’s hip? Well Leland’s hip, in a nutshell, as I understand it, involves the hip person challenge orthodoxy, or not conform, or go against what is accepted. Jon goes against the orthodoxy of the day by when he goes to parties and hangs out with friends on the weekends he will not drink, or smoke, or take any drugs. In this day of time it seems that it is normal for one to have a few drinks after a long hard week, but in Jon’s case he does not. So if going against the current beliefs is hip, in that sense Jon is hip.
According to Leland what also makes one hip is their perception of time, and an enlighten perception. In Jon’s case I imagine he falls in both these categories. Just as Emerson has his religious beliefs that were a little unorthodox for the time, so does Jon. He believes that time is just valued to man, that time to God is a continuous round with no beginning or end, kind of like a circle. With this belief, Jon also believes that before this life on earth, we existed, with God, and after this life we will continue to exist. He has a different sense of time, and a different perception or some may say enlgihtmenment.
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