Lol @ the hippie remark...
Well, i think that cliques(that was the right spelling X_x) are stupid... But not the people joining them... I mean, you're right about the temporary shelter thingie, but you can't label the people joining them stupid... I mean they all have their good and bad sides. They label themselves to fit in, but as Kimon says, they'll grow out of it... Well, we could just call it "temporary stupidness"??
Nah.. Some of them are stupid and some of them are not, bt it's because of them joining cliques or anything... maybe it's just a desperate way to fit in, maybe they do it because they think it's fun, or maybe they do it because they want to be cool. But who cares anyway?