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They're all busy bidding on bits for their fly summer rides. 80's road bikes with 5/6 speed gruppos= Next Big Thing.
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Being a hipster isn't a style of dressing (they come in all different styles/colours/layers of irony). Unfortunately, it's deeper than that. It's a mindset, a really horrible disease or affliction that is affecting the youth of western countries. It is prevalent in the countries where theorists believed they would see post-material societies emerging. Instead all that is emerging are societies where trends or ideas that would have otherwise have become the 'style of the iconoclastic youth', are marketed before they even have a chance to become 'underground' or 'cool', and where every action of the youth culture is accompanied by crushing apathy and an almost systemic self-stigmatisation - almost as if everyone is ashamed to be adopted into any kind of community based around music or fashion.
So yes, I am a hipster. Happy?
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Jeeeeeeez! I was only joking... But I can relate... Totally... ;]
It does sound like you hit a nerve doesn't it, it was intended as an objective tangential meta-cultural comment, but i always get carried away with these things.
And anyway I am a hipster, I wear bright clothes, and dress with absolutely no regard to common decency/cleanliness/tidiness, and i ride a unigear bicycle with minimal stopping mechanisms, and i go to art school, and i have been known to sport assymetrical hairstyles, and i walk around with a plastic spanner round my neck for gawd's sake! Guilty as charged! :)
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there is a theory that the coming economic meltdown will produce something valid from todays youth apart from hipsterdom. at the moment it's all about style and how you want to be perceived by others and judged on the pointless things you buy. todays yoot haven't known this country in crisis. punk being a good example of a reaction towards the state of society, the miners strikes and poll tax riots were the most recent events to engage and provoke a reaction both politically and musically.
creativitity brought about by a countries malaise is often the most powerful form of expression.
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there is a theory that the coming economic meltdown will produce something valid from todays youth apart from hipsterdom. at the moment it's all about style and how you want to be perceived by others and judged on the pointless things you buy. todays yoot haven't known this country in crisis. punk being a good example of a reaction towards the state of society, the miners strikes and poll tax riots were the most recent events to engage and provoke a reaction both politically and musically.
creativitity brought about by a countries malaise is often the most powerful form of expression.
buying a white plastic wheel doesn't make you a rebel.I think the problem is that our society has reached the stage where rebellion as a means of self-expression no longer works. There's nothing to rebel against. Well there IS, but the fact is that the yoot of today are either beaten down by the malicious tide of consumerism and the debt this infuses in their parents, or they're satiated by trinkets and doohickeys.
Either way, I think the yoot of today should be doing what i do - organising things for their peers - for example I'm taking a bunch of students from my class up to newcastle to do a joint show with northumbria students. They get to show their work in a nice big gallery, loads of northern arts nobblers will look at it and go 'ooh' (or more likely 'what the jesus fuck'), badabing badaboom, we all become famous.*
*no
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It does sound like you hit a nerve doesn't it, it was intended as an objective tangential meta-cultural comment, but i always get carried away with these things.
And anyway I am a hipster, I wear bright clothes, and dress with absolutely no regard to common decency/cleanliness/tidiness, and i ride a unigear bicycle with minimal stopping mechanisms, and i go to art school, and i have been known to sport assymetrical hairstyles, and i walk around with a plastic spanner round my neck for gawd's sake! Guilty as charged! :)
I just wrote an awesome and super-measured response to that ^ but my gf said I shouldn't post it cuz 'you're off your fucking head, getofftheinternet'... Maybe I'll PM it to ya... ;]
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I think the problem is that our society has reached the stage where rebellion as a means of self-expression no longer works. There's nothing to rebel against. Well there IS, but the fact is that the yoot of today are either beaten down by the malicious tide of consumerism and the debt this infuses in their parents, or they're satiated by trinkets and doohickeys.
Either way, I think the yoot of today should be doing what i do - organising things for their peers - for example I'm taking a bunch of students from my class up to newcastle to do a joint show with northumbria students. They get to show their work in a nice big gallery, loads of northern arts nobblers will look at it and go 'ooh' (or more likely 'what the jesus fuck'), badabing badaboom, we all become famous.*
*no
asm: a hipster with a heart. Bless your mismatched socks.
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I think the problem is that our society has reached the stage where rebellion as a means of self-expression no longer works. There's nothing to rebel against. Well there IS, but the fact is that the yoot of today are either beaten down by the malicious tide of consumerism and the debt this infuses in their parents, or they're satiated by trinkets and doohickeys.
exactamundo. +1
when i were a lad people we wanted to be firemen or astronauts, now kids want to be famous. (or rather famous for being famous like todays talentless celebs)
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Where did all the hipsters go?
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Still here, alive and apathetic to everything that isn't pretty looking!
Fuck that cold, I compromise my look for no man or temperature plummet.