Eating my words

[paulhope]

Remember all that stuff I was saying about the film, "Load After Load," playing at the party of My Pal, Foot Foot? I take it back. Shame, shame, shame--what's wrong with me? Here's a problem with having (acknowledging) split motivations for every action

Comments

[paulhope]

mmm. i guess maybe that's true.

What are you referring to here? The cartoon? Somebody elses post?

I think the point about hipsters never self-identifying as such is really apt. It's the case of a (enter dork mode) category that captures a statistical regularity that shows up when you start trying to summarize information in a lossy way, but people's own social circles are too important to people for them to generalize over like that.

Also, it's funny that so many people rejecting any label (what does indie mean? It means 'not like/dependent on anyone else,' right?) fall into the same bucket.

[yourpalfootfoot]

activism is just a trendy buzzword one can apply to anything to help himself feel better. near as I can tell, anyway. bake-sales become activist bake-sales, bicycle riding suddenly becomes something socially important, yadda yadda yadda. Hey! Who hasn't studied abroad (South America! Am I right, folks?) and.. you know, had their eyes opened, yadda yadda yadda some more. also, most activists (in providence, anyway) are upper-class whites, who move into neighborhoods that were until recently, like, hella poor.

all of this posturing seems silly. like, we're all just imbuing harmless, unimportant cliques with the the type of overwhelming and absurd philosophic importance that college students usually reserve for dissecting tv shows or poor people or whatever.

[anonymous]

it's fitting that today hipsters should gentrify places like the mission district, wicker park, and williamsburg...expelling minorities...since in a sense the whole history of american cool is founded on the appropriating the cultural cachet of being black without facing the political consequences

[yourpalfootfoot]

Whose idea of cool are we talking about?