A clever read this month: Adbusters Issue 79 (East and West issue) scathingly uncovers the veil of hipsterdom as “A Dead End of Western Civilization.” And cheekily refers to the rise of the east as all things cool for the rest of the issue.
A contrast to which we couldn’t chuckle along more.
Hipster: The Dead End of Civilization
We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality, and is leaving a generation pointlessly obsessing over fashion, faux individuality, cultural capital and the commodities of style.
