Saturday August 02, 2008 at 19:18
“Adbusters noted the signature peculiarity of hipster culture: hipsters refuse to identify as hipsters. They failed, however, to explain this phenomenon. The explanation is that hipsters are the mainstream, and the mainstream is incapable of identifying itself as such. Nobody places the sort of political demands on mainstream culture that are placed on subcultures. The majority is too big, too lumbering, and too anonymous to politicize. Extract hipsters from the species of subculture and move them one higher in the cultural taxonomy. Their political burden is lifted. Western civilization isn’t doomed because it’s never depended on the majority culture for forward progress. Progress emerges on the fringes and gradually impacts the majority. Hipsters will continue to be the young reflections of the dull majority culture and it doesn’t matter. Put your hope into that which hasn’t yet emerged.”
— al3x.net: On Hipsters
(via torrez)
