Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

[j]

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

Crap... I've been spotted more than a few times wearing a plain v-neck (not AA though, hipster-unfriendly Hanes from Wal Mart made in some country that is just an island with a factory from edge to edge), while drinking a PBR. I hope I'm not a hipster. I think I'm too old to be one and probably have too few tattoos.

 

[Augusto86]

Originally Posted by j

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

Crap... I've been spotted more than a few times wearing a plain v-neck (not AA though, hipster-unfriendly Hanes from Wal Mart made in some country that is just an island with a factory from edge to edge), while drinking a PBR. I hope I'm not a hipster. I think I'm too old to be one and probably have too few tattoos.

****. This guy totally stole my schtick.

 

[ADH]

Good point. I just read the article Saturday nite and couldn't remember what magazine it was in. Glad someone else saw it. I myself have begun to question the "hipster" trends I have succumb to. Thankfully not that many. I quit wearing V neck t's, never touch PBR and thank god don't wear non-prescription glasses, or glasses at all for that matter. I'm only 23 so I guess it wouldn't be but so bad if I matched a point here or there but the bigger thing for me is that my generation should stand out or stick up for something more than the next goddamn American trend, vintage flannels and all. My girlfriend totally defended all her friends that I realized were "hipsters". Looking at all those pictures made me feel like I was looking at all the the pictures from every party I have ever been to in Richmond. Oh well, buck the system I say, I guess being a "non-hipster" means still rocking all the trends you still like long after they have died with everyone else.

P.S.- the best part of the article was when the girl said she didn't like the term, "hipster" because it was offensive. I guess we now have to add this term to lines such as, skank, ho, slut, and the list goes on.

 

[MetroStyles]

The dead end of western civilization? I doubt that. Soon enough, being an apathetic poser will lose its appeal. This is just a trend, a result of a generation with nothing to fight for and nothing to rebel against.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by j

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

Crap... I've been spotted more than a few times wearing a plain v-neck (not AA though, hipster-unfriendly Hanes from Wal Mart made in some country that is just an island with a factory from edge to edge), while drinking a PBR. I hope I'm not a hipster. I think I'm too old to be one and probably have too few tattoos.

What would Gatto Corse do?




I am so uncool.

 

[gdl203]

This is my favorite part.

"I've always found that word ["hipster"] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are bored, and they're just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable," he says. "I'm dubious of these hypotheses because they always smell of an agenda."

Completely agree. Some dress like b-boys, punks, nantucket trust-fund babies and others in the SF SW&D uniforms - some mix it all to be/feel different - I don't see any problem with either.

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by gdl203

Some dress like...nantucket trust-fund babies

 

[Tarmac]

Soo, adbusters is trying to criticize someone for being too ironic? Adbusters? STFU

 

[KBW]

I would say I'm far from a hipster but I wear plain v-necks all the time. What does PBR have to do with being a hipster??? That beer is awful and gives me headaches.

 

[binge]

I never understood why PBR was a standard part of the hipster toolkit.

 

[DocHolliday]

It's both cheap and ironic, two things hipsters love.

 

[Piobaire]

I think William Gibson ghost-wrote that article. Basically, it just described Gibson's take on the ever changing fad cultures and counter-cultures of the tragically hip youth. This could have been pulled directly from any number of Gibson works, from Neuromancer to his latest Lo/Rez books. It kept reminding me of Molly telling Case, not to let himself be generation gapped...by people that were about six years younger than him, if I remember right.

 

[ADH]

I personally don't get the PBR either, what's with adults twenty-five and older that still drink that stuff? Am I self-righteous being only twenty-three and swearing not to touch it?

 

[binge]

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

It's both cheap and ironic, two things hipsters love.

Cheap yes, but never seemed ironic to me. It would be more ironic to drink High-Life.

 

[DocHolliday]

Originally Posted by binge

Cheap yes, but never seemed ironic to me. It would be more ironic to drink High-Life.

You're probably right. But for hipsters, anything with a touch of the blue collar is deemed ironic.