[lbo-talk] hipsterism nailed

Chuck chuck at mutualaid.org
Thu Jun 28 09:26:17 PDT 2007


Doug Henwood wrote:
> <http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2007/06/
> selected_minor_.html>


> For hipsters, prevailing ideas and values are not necessarily
> oppressive, just stupid; not necessarily worthy of anger, just
> ridicule. (They generally focus on cultural output from the recent
> past, for reasons we have yet to consider.) Thus for example
> hipsterism encourages its adherents to propose, in writing, on their
> t-shirts, to sell moustache rides for five cents, not because they
> intend to give anyone a moustache ride, and not even because the
> apposition of ‘moustache’ and ‘ride’ is seen as a source of humor.
> What is humorous is that in some imagined Country Comfort Lounge in
> Amarillo or Cheyenne a generation ago some big slab of a man actually
> sported a moustache of which he was proud, which he believed could
> function directly and un-ironically as a sexual attractant.

Wouldn't this writing be an example of hipsterism?

Reads pretty self-referential to me.

Chuck



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