"Hipster" as pejorative.

what about them?

http://www.zoilus.com/rsz_cg0455riddle.jpg

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

christ

SOMEONE didnt get invited to the gallery opening!!!!

omg, i am only a few paragraphs in and...wow

Gavin McInnes, one of the founders of Vice, who recently left the magazine, is considered to be one of hipsterdom’s primary architects.

“If only we carried rocks instead of cameras, we’d look like revolutionaries.”

no momus no credibility

Hipster Dom

& adbusters has the temerity to subtitle their march issue 'the reconquest of cool'

explain to me adbuster

Is that a Thomas Frank ref?

http://www.whsmith.co.uk/Images/Products%5C226%5C260%5C9780226260129_m_f.jpg

Punks wear their tattered threads and studded leather jackets with honor, priding themselves on their innovative and cheap methods of self-expression and rebellion. B-boys and b-girls announce themselves to anyone within earshot with baggy gear and boomboxes

what?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KVR30YH1L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

explain to me adbuster

-- deej, Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:59 PM

if you're familiar with 'buy nothing day' which is supposed to grind the capitalist consumer system to a halt, i believe they are the ones behind that

haha oh man i just decided to go look at momus's blog

We don't like how they make their great kids great

The Vice Guide to North Korea is a 14-episode account -- made at some risk to the journalists -- of a heavily-guarded journey through North Korea. I found it fascinating, but I did notice some dubious ideology creeping in, especially in Episode 12, A Schoolchildren's Palace, billed as "meeting the country's creepily over-talented future generation".

Here Shane Smith edged towards that journalistic-political cliché I call the "we don't like how they treat their women / children" school. Basically, the idea behind this move is that in any given culture, men are responsible for the ideology, and women and children are helpless victims and hostages. The implication is that, although the men are a lost cause, the women and children could be captured and brought to some other culture, where they'd be much happier.

This "much happier", in Smith's account of North Korean children, involves being a lot less motivated and talented. "One of the most fun-slash-sad times," Smith says in Episode 12, "was to see the best-of-the-best school in Pyongyang." After showing some child prodigies playing musical instruments larger than themselves, Smith decides that "it's so sad because these great kids are learning and learning for the state". But what's wrong with learning -- to exceptionally high standards -- for the state, and at the expense of the state? Are these children really to be pitied? Mightn't they be -- as well as "great kids" -- fervently ideological admirers of Kim Jong Il, believers in North Korea's superiority over South Korea, and convinced that their "creepy talents" could only have been advanced so far in the particular system they were born into?

jesus, i have my own personal issues with feeling bummed-out as what i see as a somewhat nihilstic streak which runs throughout much of "youth culture" nowadays, but talk about some absurd lazy-ass writing