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

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this is hal

[anonymous]

Modern hipsterism is like the consumerist farce of historical countercultures. It's something you buy into, or at least the Ivy League version is, by wearing certain clothes and listening to certain bands. It represents the recuperation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation) of deviant tendencies into a more or less socially acceptable clique

Re: this is hal

[paulhope]

Thanks for gracing this journal with your comments again, Hal. I miss hearing from you more often

Re: this is hal

[anonymous]

Situationists were an interesting bunch. One of them, Guy Debord, became lastingly famous. they were the primary intelletuals behind the '68 riots in france. I think they saw their work as "liberating" as opposed to negative work + positive work. but yeah, as for them never getting anywhere, you're right

On the other hand

[paulhope]

Foot Foot is probably right though--all that stuff about encroaching nihilism (Schopenhaur? What?) is probably wrong.

(enter dork)
I.e., the variance is probably taken up by much more mundane factors. It might as well be random noise.

It's a null hypothesis about zeitgeist, and I, in my saner moments, support it.

I think the only reason why I was thinking this way was because I was locked into a long argument with a crusty Kantian in the philosophy journals last week which started with him identifying a "disturbing, nihilistic trend among today's youth."

Got sucked in. Ballsack. Pretension.