[lbo-talk] mea culpa

W. Kiernan wkiernan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 2 08:45:23 PDT 2008


Doug Henwood quoted:

>

> An artificial appropriation of different styles from

> different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western

> civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of

> its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only

> is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth

> movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence

> of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth

> subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of

> mainstream society.

Christ, that sounds like Seymour Krim.

yrs WDK



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