Hipster Nation Rises up in Anger/Apathy
Great comments reading on the Adbusters ‘Hipsters are the end of Civilization article’. Particularly by Rob S. (whoever you are Rob S., I hope you are working on your thesis at UofC)
We’re regurgitating cool because really, why not? The fact that the someone deems a need to create something new is pompous in itself. Nothing is new. Those fashions and that music — it was coming from someone else. Elvis didn’t invent rock music. He stole it from black musicians who stole it from someone before them who stole it from someone before them. We’ve been stealing from ourselves since the dawn of time. It’s about time we finally acknowledge
It is something you learn after your second theme party my dear hipsters: its all been done before.
