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DEATH_OF_HIP

                                             August   31, 2012
                                             September 4, 2012

  Yes, hip is dead, and we have burned it.
  Or something.

                              HIPSTER

                                             BEATNIK_59
     A point that's been increasingly
     obvious in recent years: the term
     "hipster" has been hi-jacked by a         If this sounds like the
     bunch of young interlopers who            usual gripings of an
     barely have a clue about the history      old fart about the
     of the term (or much of anything          younger generation,
     else).                                    well yeah, no kidding,
                                               but I decided I might
                                               as well roll with it.

       Currently the Mission District of San
       Francisco is overrun with bubble 2.0
       types (or is it 3.0?), trying to work on
       their facebook game app startups using
       coffee houses as their office
       (sterotypically, Ritual Roasters).

       Thanks to them, riding a fixie-bike
       has become a joke, an affectation           But if you want to be
       of a crowd-following rebel.                 fair to this latest
                                                   wave, at least some
                                                   of their affectations
                                                   aren't bad things to
                                                   be into: bike-riding,
                                                   fair-trade coffee...


     I've never exactly been *comfortable*
     waving a flag labeled "hipster":

           HIPSTERISM

     But it's been a better-than-nothing,
     convienient tag for something of
     interest.

     Thanks to the latest wave
     of yuppies-in-disguise, I       Maybe I'll come up with a better
     have to drop it.                terminlogy, and taxonomy, in
                                     which case, I owe them a back-
                                     handed debt.
        And there's a certain
        grim satisfaction in                It might be that "hipster"
        the neo-hipsters                    needs to be used with a range
        themselves lamenting                of years, or a set of
        the (impending?)                    Korzybskian sub-scripts.
        death of their
        "sub-culture"...

        ANTI-ANTI-ELITISM-ELITISTS


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