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These articles miss the point of "hipsters" being anticonformist in that "hipsters" aren't anticonformist, they are merely alternative. Meaning they're ok with
by DINKDINK 12y ago
These articles miss the point of "hipsters" being anticonformist in that "hipsters" aren't anticonformist, they are merely alternative. Meaning they're ok with someone having tatoos and giving you legal advice, that you can look atypical and not be a boogie-person.
It seems that either writers tend to ignore the rich history of counter-culture movements in the society (the beats, hippies, off-griders, Latter Day Saints, MOVE, Black Panthers, goths, punks, anarchists) or are simply ignorant of them.
- eevilspock 12y agoQuite right. Hipsters are far from genuine counter-culture. Adbusters (the mag that sparked Occupy Wall Street) has a great piece on this: Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization. It's subtitle is Counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum, stripped of its subversion and originality. https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html