On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au>wrote:
> On Mon, June 14, 2010 6:53 pm, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> > inspired by jim straub's comments on facebook, to which i didn't get a
> > satisfactory response: what are hipsters? why were they invented or "big"
> > in 2004 - if they were? why is being a hipster a bad thing?
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> M.J. Smith responded:
> Wasn't it ever thus? I remember hippies back in the 60s talking
> scornfully about "hippies".
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> That's because the bourgeois gatekeepers at "Time" mag coined the term
> 'hippy' and we all thought of ourselves as 'freaks'. A similar thing
> happened with the beats. Herb Caen turned them into commies by calling them
> beatniks, after sputnik. It's pure psy-war out there. You've got Peter
> Petersen and the 'Wash Post' in the virtual world running constant attacks
> on 'entitlements' e.g. Social Security and at the same time a few class
> conscious workers realising that labor is entitled to all the wealth it
> creates.
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> Mike B)
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