To address the post I was hoping this would perhaps examine aspects of hipster culture in the past. Then perhaps trace through a couple incarnations of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Different cultural trends that valued "authenticity": prog, "indie", aspects of punk vs. "inauthenticity": glam, synthpop, New Wave/New Romanticism, that sort of thing.
Man though there has been soooo much written on punk v. glam, hardcore v. new romantics, and by much much better writers than me.
Though I could definetely see like, a thesis -> antithesis -> synthesis movement perhaps in: late 80's/early 90's pop rock -> hardcore (i.e. fugazi and husker du) -> pop-punk. That might be worth looking into a bit but idk man that is for a LATER DATE.
Or emocore -> pop-punk -> pop-emo (i.e. Get-Up Kids, Dashboard, etc.) and the far more redeemable post-emo (i.e. Hellogoodbye and some early Scene bands that draw a lot from hardcore like Glassjaw)
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.
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
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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
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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.
Hipster #1: "Look at these poor people, oh my god they are so precious, I want to live here!" Hipster #2: "I know right! Hey look, a landlord, lets offer him absurd amount of monies out of our trust funds to pretend to be poor while everyone else has their neighborhood cost-of-living increased until we throttle them out" Kate: "I'm getting my guns"
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Though I could definetely see like, a thesis -> antithesis -> synthesis movement perhaps in: late 80's/early 90's pop rock -> hardcore (i.e. fugazi and husker du) -> pop-punk. That might be worth looking into a bit but idk man that is for a LATER DATE.
Or emocore -> pop-punk -> pop-emo (i.e. Get-Up Kids, Dashboard, etc.) and the far more redeemable post-emo (i.e. Hellogoodbye and some early Scene bands that draw a lot from hardcore like Glassjaw)
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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 ( ... )
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WHARGL STOP RUINING MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND MY BARS YARRRRRRGH I HAVE TO LIVE HERE FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU WHARGLBARGL
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Hipster #2: "I know right! Hey look, a landlord, lets offer him absurd amount of monies out of our trust funds to pretend to be poor while everyone else has their neighborhood cost-of-living increased until we throttle them out"
Kate: "I'm getting my guns"
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PUT YOUR DOG ON A FUCKING LEASH
PICK UP ITS POOP
STOP 'IRONICALLY' LISTENING TO JOURNEY AT 11 AT 3 AM
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FUCKING DIE
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MY BEDROOM IS LITERALLY A CLOSET
FOR REAL
I AIN'T JOKIN' Y'ALL NEED TO GTFO WITH YOUR BMWS I HOPE YOU GET SHOT
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