The CEO of Urban Outfitters, a neo-conservative capitalist who has supported cantidates such as Rick Santorum, sells apparrel and items so-derived from the established thesis, while being a noted member of the antithesis.
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I think the guy who operates Vice magazine also identifies as conservative.
I saw a hipster next to me on the subway today. As I felt immediately compelled to observe on Twitter, he had Clark Kent glasses, the mountain man beard, and the ever-present Tea In A Jar, with the added bonus of reading a Bible. The concept of a genuinely Christian hipster disturbed me too much so I decided it just had to be ironic Christianity, though then this disturbed me even more and I'm going to go with him being a student and reading the Bible for class.
... except that idea is also disturbing, because reading for school is so 1995. Homework sold out a long time ago.
Edit: Also ilu for Hegelizing this because Hegel bores me and I would have just written the Nietzschean analysis of hipsters, which is "kill it with fire."
Hey now, there's nothing wrong with being Christian and hipster, insofar that there's nothing wrong with being Christian, and the problem just comes from the hipster aspect. Even as much too that modern trends have seen the resurgence of a lot of "holistic" Christianity and more liberal interpretations of the religious experience, reaching back as far as the 60's. It's as much that Unitarianism has seized a heavy presence, that there's a resurgent interest in Gnosticism, and that awareness of the Quakers has become a thing besides individual, let me barf out this phrase: do-it-yourself churches, having popped up all over the place.
Though a big part of that observation on my part is knowing a fella in my work neighborhood who is one of those sorts of almost-hipster Christians, in being an earnestly good dude, and prescribing pretty heavily to modern, liberalized interpretations of the work. Plus he's really into Kierkegaard so I can't hate him. You're alright, Christian existentialists.
The point that I was seizing at there though, is that the sort of almost subcultured trend of some forms of Christianity now lends them perfectly to earnest hipster appreciation -- that, or it serves itself strongly as an aspect of the antithesis, bringing conservative values to otherwise non-conservative movements. Either way, it depends on the flavor of Christianity being bought.
Haha, well yes, all of this exactly. Nothing wrong with being Christian, but coupling it sincerely or insincerely with hipsterdom seems fittingly antithetical, as it were, and this disturbs me because such a union within the antithesis crystallizes all that is unholy about reactionary religion and reactionary postmodernism at the same time.
FUCKING THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE
I think the guy who operates Vice magazine also identifies as conservative.
I saw a hipster next to me on the subway today. As I felt immediately compelled to observe on Twitter, he had Clark Kent glasses, the mountain man beard, and the ever-present Tea In A Jar, with the added bonus of reading a Bible. The concept of a genuinely Christian hipster disturbed me too much so I decided it just had to be ironic Christianity, though then this disturbed me even more and I'm going to go with him being a student and reading the Bible for class.
... except that idea is also disturbing, because reading for school is so 1995. Homework sold out a long time ago.
Edit: Also ilu for Hegelizing this because Hegel bores me and I would have just written the Nietzschean analysis of hipsters, which is "kill it with fire."
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Though a big part of that observation on my part is knowing a fella in my work neighborhood who is one of those sorts of almost-hipster Christians, in being an earnestly good dude, and prescribing pretty heavily to modern, liberalized interpretations of the work. Plus he's really into Kierkegaard so I can't hate him. You're alright, Christian existentialists.
The point that I was seizing at there though, is that the sort of almost subcultured trend of some forms of Christianity now lends them perfectly to earnest hipster appreciation -- that, or it serves itself strongly as an aspect of the antithesis, bringing conservative values to otherwise non-conservative movements. Either way, it depends on the flavor of Christianity being bought.
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