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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?