Viva La Hipster

[beatniknight]

It's old now, but Time Out New York (hereafter referred to as TONY) had a campaign last week against, of all people, hipsters.  "The hipster must die" the article read, as if people (even self-described "sort of hipster-ish myself" people) haven't been saying this since Pulp released Different Class in 1995.  Probably earlier than that, even

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[beatniknight]

But we've (and by "we" I mean America as a sweeping generalization, not you or I specifically) already made the bohemian lifestyle glamorous. And not just poverty but stupidity too

[beatniknight]

I don't know that the media glamorizes anything that the people don't already sort of want already. I mean, isn't that denying the effects of capitalism. The media only gives us what we want, because if they didn't they wouldn't get any money.

But anyway. So, if I may, can I ask if there isn't an aspect of jealousy in your objection? After all, you're not paying their tab, their parents are. You stand to lose nothing for their lack of ambition. Is it not at least partly that you wish you had had the benefits growing up that the hipsters did and chose to squander?

But also, I don't think that you stand to lose any credit for your hard work. I mean, non-hipsters still completely respect hard work. So hipsters don't. So what? You don't like them anyway. I really don't think that anyone thinks hipsters are cool except for hipsters.

[beatniknight]

The hipster lifestyle is repellant to me, don't get me wrong, but it's never really translated into "the hipster must die." I think they're morons, but tolerable morons so long as I don't have to interact with them (and I don't, usually).

'Course, you could say that sometimes the herd mentality is also the right mentality (e.g. you don't see a lot of people staple gunning their lips together). Sometimes the things that everyone does, like, say, getting a real job (more people get real jobs than don't, you have to admit), are probably the right things to do. It could be argued that blindly opposing the herd is no better than blindly following them.

[beatniknight]

Oh, I don't know if I would say I was smart. Just argumentative. And that I got from playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.