Hipsters: blight
24 07 11 - 09:05
When your civilization gets ready to die, it first loses hold of any purpose held in common.That leaves us with the drama of the individual.
People who are either (a) exceptional or (b) self-actualized duck out of this, of course. They are more interested in using themselves as a means to an end, as paradoxically, that's the only way they get a positive experience of life.
But people with nothing going for them become either humdrum idiots commuting to pointless jobs, or humdrum idiots commuting to pointless jobs and pretending to be important.
The most visible sub-group of that group are the hipsters: ordinary people who camouflage themselves as extraordinary using eccentic collections of cultural objects for the purpose of self-aggrandizement through uniqueness/ostentation/flamboyance/absurdity/"different"ness/irony:
From Your Scene Sucks. Note this better description of the hipster: Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization.
With apologies to Glenn Benton:
You are the one we despise
Day in day out your words comprise lies
I will love watching you die
Soon it will be and by your own demise
Buried in hypocrisy
Lacerate your faith in trends
Morally diseased
On the fixie of drama your body so unexceptional
Blessing as you hate
Loyal to your enemies
Fashion is your faith
As hip you'll pay for the lies of your prophecy
Sanity wants you dead
Kill the hipster, kill the hipster
Kill the hipster, kill the hipster
Kill the hipster, kill the hipster
Kill the hipster
Armies of justice unite
Destroy their clubs and pubs with fire
Where in his world will you hide
Sentenced to death, the anointment of lies
In due time your path leads to me
Remove you from your misery
The death of pretense
Kill the hipster
Kill the hipster...dead!
- Deicide
seventeen comments

No place for hate. Dave - 24-07-’11 15:22
Uh-oh a "liberated woman" has hurt feelings. Typical hipster comeback, "you just don't get laid brah". art school dropouts are sluts too - 26-07-’11 06:56