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- canoe0
Not to mention the music. I think you'd have to be culturally color blind not to see the connection between 80s and today's hipster
- detritus0
'troll'? Really? Because I evidently don't share your total ignorance?
Jesus, you really are a mug.
Every generation and decade has its 'thing' it offers to the world, usually draped in some aesthetic that is either its own or riffs something that came before it.
But these movement consist of "1%" actual engagement, "99%" sheep-like aesthetic.
Stating "Yah apparently the youth started one of the biggest peace movements on the planet." simply shows how fundamentally ignorant you are of anything that came before your own time.
Why not call me a 'hater' instead? That's what all the blinkered young morons appear to do these days, when confronted with an opnion that doesn't gel with their own.
Spastic.
- 20020
I thought current hipster was more aligned to 50s or 20s or what ever decade mustaches, slick hair, lumberjack etc
- I feel the term hipster has just become a broad generalization of whatever is new and slightly different.duckseason
- that does make sense. hater2002
- that's true, the word hipster is very, very old.canoe
- duckseason0
I don't understand why people can't seem to get over this topic or at the very least come to terms with it. People are individuals. They're gonna do what they wanna do for whatever reason they want to do it. You aren't always going to agree with it or understand it.
I can't help but think that the people that piss and moan about things like this today are inevitably going to be the old men of tomorrow who sit on their porch yelling at neighborhood kids for listening to whatever music will be popular then, or whatever fashion trend is in cycle.
If this is truly a burning question in your mind, then go ask them directly why they do what they do.
- hater2002
- Sure. Hating on the people who feel the need to constantly judge just because they don't understand/agree with something.duckseason
- ...something.duckseason
- detritus0
What did you rely upon to teach you History, Canoe?
VH1?
- Hey, there's a time life 60s music compilation they advertise on there - do your bit for world peace!detritus
- Yeh, I love that ad. Watched it about a dozen times. The Teenage one, or something.. ?mikotondria3
- canoe0
The peace movement was on television, in music, in everyday America, but most importantly that was all in your mind.
- detritus
- ukit20
Hipster culture seems like it has an economic aspect to it...20 and 30 somethings who have not been able to advance economically, so they buy secondhand clothes.
- thats the very opposite of hipster2002
- I don't think so at all. Hipsters are not poor. They buy all the latest hipster stuff to stay on trend.CanHasQBN
- I don't know any rich hipsters settled in the suburbs like their parents probably were at their ageukit2
- Yeah hipster shit can be expensive, at least it was in Buenos Airescanoe
- Huh? Are you implying that once you are financially fit, you are more likely to head to the suburbs?CanHasQBN
- I would never imply such a thingukit2
- They move from the suburbs to the trendy hoods and say they are "from _____". Trying to get some insta-cred.stoplying
- 20020
Hipster Dufus
A word whose origins come from the hit television sitcom "Seinfeld". One of the recurring characters, Cosmo Kramer, had been called this (as far as I know, on more than one occasion).
I assume it's supposed to be an insult, referring to the person as someone who thinks they're cool, yet is (according to the insulter) quite the opposite.
"Am I a hipster dufus, Jerry?"
- canoe0
I wasn't dissing it duckfuck, I was asking what makes them tic toc.
- Wow.duckseason
- The only part of what I wrote that was directly targeted at you was the last line.duckseason
- The rest just generalization based on the amount of time this or similar topics have come up here.duckseason
- Sorry if it came off as an attack - just getting a bit burnt out on these threads. I don't usually let myself get sucked in.duckseason
- lol @ duckfuck.CanHasQBN
- vaxorcist0
Canoe... I see your idea.....
The 80's was a time I grew up as an anti-establishment post-punk cranky ass.... not to say I matured much....
an odd thing about the 80's memories is what's forgotten.....
1. Rusty old cars with "DIE YUPPIE SCUM" bumper stickers
(yes, it was hip to be non-materialistic, anti-suburban, kind of like Occupy Wall Street these days)2. Ronald Reagan was FUCKING HATED, the economy was waaay in the toilet in the early 80's and Reagan invaded Grenada to distract everyone... Reagen brought back the "Selective Service" and we all burned our "Selective Service cards, because NO FUCKING WAY were we going to go fight in El Salvador or Nicaragua.... it was completely unhip to like Reagan....
I fear that the 80's we see in the rear view mirror is totally different...
Mostly I fear that the FOX News people are trying to make Reagan a God, and the 80's as a "purer, simpler" time, just like the 50's supposedly were, unlike the "goddless, complex socialist" world we live in now....
- 80s anti-nuke marches achieved more in the mass public consciousness than flowery hippies ever did.detritus
- something thoughtful, finallycanoe
- How many people here remember the constant fear of a Nuclear War we had in the 80s....vaxorcist
- I do I do I do.
I wrote horribly nihilistic English assignments about it, and fuck it - I thought we were goners..mikotondria3
- canoe0
2002 - hipster was used in the days of Bobby Dylan also.
Do you really just believe shit like that or do you make it up and then believe it?
- canoe0
Detritus, I get it now - the hippy movement happened, but you didn't like it, and these people disgust you.
Well why the fuck are you here telling me this? So you can spout off about some off topic bullshit?
Go get your angry nut somewhere else.
- 20020
lets all agree to disagree that anyone who uses instagram are hipsters.
- 20020
or anyone who take excessive pictures of their cats and call it artful photography.
- canoe0
Hey who knows how I would have turned out if I was born in 1985. I'm not dissing it, I'm just trying to understand it a bit more.... because after all everyone does everything for a reason.
These people that are offended because someone wants to understand them... well I guess they're insecure because maybe they're as hollow as it appears. And maybe, I would be just like them if I was born into this crap.
- ukit20
There's really two different topics here. The 80s influence on culture was around a long time before the "hipster" movement picked up on it.
- 20020
wait there is the point to the hipsters who get wealth moving to suburbs.
- detritus0
not at all - I actually live in a very hippy-like environment, which middle class people tend to disparage-as.
I'm just not deluded by some artificial concept that the hippies achieved anything - they didn't. In fact, for most purposes, they probably did more damage as the bulk of established society wanted no truck with them.
For sure, the 60s and 70s saw the opening up of a more enlightened consciousness, some of which can be attributed to the fact of the hippy movement's existence - but it had more to do with practical economic and societal externalities than any aesthetic conceit.
Look, your entire stance in this thread is sat hip-deep in ignorance - I don't necessarily mean that in an insulting way, I just mean that you don't actually have a clue what you're on about.
You've started off with an ill-considered opinion, and now you have people pointing out how lacklustre and stupid it is, to which you're feeling aggrieved. I get it.
*shrugs*
I'm not angry. If anything, I'm just a little saddened.
- you're right about the socioeconomic conditions shaping things, but the hippies DID achieve some big changesmonospaced
- CanHasQBN0
What the hell are you assholes arguing about
- see belowmonospaced
- cats on instagram2002
- You are dead to me, 2002.CanHasQBN