Registered: Feb 2008
Location: With Juan Pachanga Eating Tacos. Ah Ha Si Mi Gusta.
this thread is so amusing.
this phenomena is nothing new.
music and fashion have been recycled for ages. Every generation has a social group like this, and the criticisms about them tend to be the exact same ones no matter what year it is.
you must have to ask yourself why these people bother you...and if they truly bother you it might be you who has the problem.
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Richmond/Blacksburg, VA
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Originally posted by elFreak
this thread is so amusing.
this phenomena is nothing new.
music and fashion have been recycled for ages. Every generation has a social group like this, and the criticisms about them tend to be the exact same ones no matter what year it is.
you must have to ask yourself why these people bother you...and if they truly bother you it might be you who has the problem.
"The dance floor at a hipster party looks like it should be surrounded by quotation marks."
That article pretty much sums it up: ironic, apathetic, obsessed with the image, referential, trying to deny categorisation... Hipsters are the post-modern condition writ large, except that in being freed from the conventional they've merely stagnated in conventions of their own.
Originally posted by elFreak
Every generation has a social group like this, and the criticisms about them tend to be the exact same ones no matter what year it is.
Since the 1920s at least. Some of the artists living in New York and Paris during Hemingway and Fitzgerald's early years were arguably the first "hipsters." Not to say that that H. and F. were themselves hipsters; they were not. But along with the real bohemians and avante-gardists came lots of fake ones.
Every generation does indeed have phony, snooty hangers-on to trends.
Aug-20-2008 14:36
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: NY
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Originally posted by RJT
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Registered: Feb 2008
Location: With Juan Pachanga Eating Tacos. Ah Ha Si Mi Gusta.
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Since the 1920s at least. Some of the artists living in New York and Paris during Hemingway and Fitzgerald's early years were arguably the first "hipsters." Not to say that that H. and F. were themselves hipsters; they were not. But along with the real bohemians and avante-gardists came lots of fake ones.
Every generation does indeed have phony, snooty hangers-on to trends.
and in every generation those that are on the outside looking in complain about them. (they are usually losers without much of a social life, jealousy card pulled)
let people have their fun, everyone grows out of it.
Originally posted by elFreak
and in every generation those that are on the outside looking in complain about them. (they are usually losers without much of a social life, jealousy card pulled)
let people have their fun, everyone grows out of it.
Maybe surprisingly, but also just like TA!
PS: Anyone else think contemporary hipsters are a direct result of the depiction of nihilism in the Big Lebowski?
Reading that article, they were all I could think about.
