To those who are reading this blog
This blog was designed to exemplify the hipster subculture. I explore all things that considers a hipster to be literate. To start at the beginning click here at the bottom of the page.
Enclaves of Outsiders.
Hipsterdom describes a youth culture whose core principle is to be the opposition to the mainstream. Where they disregard every aspect of popular society, in essence, making them the outsider in society. They value knowledge and full truths where society is content with the abridge news and are more concerned with Hollywood culture. They also seek truth and knowledge in other mediums such as movies, music, and books. Daniel Fletcher refers to hipsterdom as a regression of all the post-WWII revolutions thus far and their belief systems and appearance is a conglomerate of said revolutions. He also, also states that hipsters try entirely to hard to not conform, which, inevitably, makes them even more of conformists. He attacks all the fundamental aspects of a hipster yet doesn’t dive deep enough to discover the true ideology behind hipsterdom. Where the roots are of that which is pure—drawing to even simple identity conflictions of adolescent children: where parents tell their child “be yourself”, “Fight for your beliefs”, and “be an individual”. In exploring the hipster subculture, one finds that hipsterdom is not a regression of past revolutions yet have created a revolution within its respect to past revolution. These are the outsiders in our society who thrive off of the power of knowledge, independent thinking, and global awareness. Also, they are those who use their creative edge to express their beliefs with conviction. And like any other, growing change put under society’s microscope, it is attempted to be captalized on by big business. Thus, what happens “when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what are the youth to do?” Hipsters reply by continuing with their day-to-day rituals: shopping in the same place, listening to the same types of music and continuing to swim in their definition of being in “the know”. Hipsterdom is the weird kid that sat alone at lunch whose struggling with identity. But as it ages, it draws the conclusion that identity is often sought after to label what cant be understood and then is scrutinized. In these finding on hipsterdom, the identity, the label, can be fit onto anyone who values their individuality—Anyone who opposes the general concensus. Once anything is capitalized on, like the hipster look, it creates a group of consumers who cloud the true ideals of that culture, which turns it into a trend. And given that this happens to everything found to liked by a consumer group, there is only one unobtainable solution—“to destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture”.
(Source: inthedeathofthedope)
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
— Voltaire
That’s a very fine chardonnay you’re drinking. I want you to clean your vagina.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers."
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Charles Bukowski in Women
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar WIlde
