Do young people use the word "hip" unironically, fully understanding what an antique expression it is?

And another generational thing: Do young people, whether fashionably scruffy, or simply scruffy, understand that one of the things they do that drives some of us old-timers nuts, especially us teacherly types, with a fondness for Herodotus and Nature, is to refuse to look out the window of the train, to enjoy the possible sighting of a mama duck with ducklings, or a mama goose with goslings, or a mama moose with a mosling (?), or a mama T-rex with a T-rexling, but instead to throw themselves wholeheartedly into the teensy screen of some hand-held device?

It's all about sex, isn't it -- "negotiating one's sexual whereabouts," as was said earlier in another thread.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

As described in the article, the reason young or otherwise-aged people don't look out windows is because they've devolved even further toward the robot beings predicted by Devo in the '70s.  Anyone who constantly uses a cell phone perfectly fits this description.

Doesn't bode well for the younger generation fixing the natural environment, does it?

And BTW, most of my friends are 10-20 years younger than I am, so this is not a slam on young people per se, but on humans as a whole.