>>2115870hipster has become so mainstream that it's just being trendy, and not actually counterculture.
college is insane. I've never met so many transgendered people, prostitutes, alcoholics, sluts...
I think it's easy to feel like society is falling apart in college, because college students don't behave in a way that would work in the real world. they live in a sheltered little playground version of the adult world where everything they believe is really special and good.
TL;DR: college kids are like you're describing. they aren't living in the real world.