mostly nonfiction and bakersfield news | August 25th, 2009
It’s Square To Be Hip
Justin Benton has a bone to pick with ‘hipsters’ over at TheNervousBreakdown.com.
Hipsters.
Where did they come from? Is their exact point of origin an actual understandable concept? And if so, who’s more to blame—Elvis Costello or Michael Stipe?
How the hell did this happen?
You may be familiar with this website.
Look at those fucking hipsters.
I’m no scholar of the cool, but I do know the interminable hippie spirit sort of stumbled its way out of the beatnik ethos. Beatniks, naturally, were a further evolution of whatever was cool before them. Which would be, er, gypsies? Newsies? Hell, I don’t know. Quite frankly, I tried to do the research, but it’s not cool. More than that, it’s a total fucking drag.
Anyway, no need to plumb the depths of hipstory. The hip/cool paradigm is pretty simple. Hip/cool cannot blossom in a vacuum. It requires another party, an audience, if you will. Hip/cool is a bit like casting a spell; you want to evoke envy in another person…
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