Don’t forget the cool name brand shoes and apparel, which are the only other tangible, durable goods with which they appear to concern themselves all that much outside of a decent LCD screen tv and if male a gaming platform attached to it.
They live in a fantasy world online via social media and gaming. The world itself is just a prop or photo backdrop for “so cool, look at me” photos posted to Facebook.
Remove their perception of coolness and being special, get confronted with a very unhappy person, it all turns into a pumpkin and they don’t want that.
It verges upon compulsion, evem psychosis with some. We’ve had to let so many seemingly promising twentysomethings go because they absolutely cannot stop texting, posting and checking Facebook.
And when the big financial collapse happens, that pumpkin will be small and rotten. Reality can be such a ruthless teacher. Build an extra bedroom in your house, cause they will come to visit for a long stay.
I am blown away by the $$ some of these grungers have invested in inking themselves up. Has to be in the thousands of dollars for many of them.