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Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization by Douglas Haddow, the lead story in this month's magazine and online at Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters. The blurb for this anti-manifesto: 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.
We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves. We are a defeated generation, resigned to the hypocrisy of those before us, who once sang songs of rebellion and now sell them back to us. We are the last generation, a culmination of all previous things, destroyed by the vapidity that surrounds us. The hipster represents the end of Western civilization - a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new. Comments are most interesting, and include this inevitable pushback: Gnash less. La Maison Moderne, 1907, Manuel Orazi (French graphic designer, 1860-1934), color lithograph. Art of the Poster 1880-1918: 162 searchable, browseable, downloadable, high-rez public-domain posters, including much Mucha, 17; a digital collection at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. |
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