AdBusters
My comment on that horrible traffic-baiting hipster article from AdBusters:
Hipster is a meaningless term. It is, for every single person who has ever used it, the linguistic equivalent of eggplant. It takes the flavor of what's applied to it. It's solely reflective of the person who uses it. It is invariably negative. It shifts in definition. You've imprinted yours in this article. It's tantamount to trying to identify generation "lame."
This article might have been cathartic a few years ago. Now it's just passé. Hipster bashing is so over. This just reads like AdBusters is trying to be the Gartner of counterculture, lobbing out ill-conceived portraits of various "generations" for PR Fodder. Unless, of course, you're just trying to catalyze the impending defense of hipsters. Because it's coming.
It never ceases to amaze me how everyone of my generation (I assume you're an old fart like me) loves to rag on the next one, even though we didn't do JACK SHIT. I could go on and on about their greater political engagement, their better music, their better art, their better drugs, their racial harmony, their comfort with their sexuality. And I will one day (in three weeks when it becomes hip). But seriously. What did WE do? Invent hip hop? Sure. Our whole generation does seem to rush to take credit for that.
And, finally. I'm old, fat and use a car service to get around, but if you stop and think about it, a fixed gear bike with brakes on it is kind of awesome on like three different levels. Have you ever tried to stop one of those things?
