> 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