Comments on: Adbusters Hates on Hipsters

By: Reid

Reid — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:22:07 +0000

“I think some dude named Bret Easton Ellis scooped Adbusters on this. Like, in the 1980s.”

And before that it was Waugh with Vile Bodies, and before that it was some other schoolmarm, and another, and another, going all the way back to Moses himself.

By: Don

Don — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:54:01 +0000

Yesterday I had to remind a kid who claimed that despite all the doom and gloom over the economy that nothing bad is really going to happen, that in fact, the 1966 Watts Riots, 1967 Newark Riots and 1968 Riots were generally about economic problems in only small parts of urban cities and yet people died. He claimed that he was unaware that the riots destroyed property. Seriously. This article is equally ignorant of history and society.

By: Ted Scheinman

Ted Scheinman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:57:15 +0000

Youth subculture mirroring the doomed shallowness of mainstream society….

I think some dude named Bret Easton Ellis scooped Adbusters on this. Like, in the 1980s.

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:53:22 +0000

I also associate myself with #3.

(And yes, I’m aware that I am leaving myself open to a plethora of scatological jokes with that statement. But so be it.)

By: Murray

Murray — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:49:53 +0000

I agree with Reid, #3. No chance I could have put it better…

By: Reid

Reid — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:36:51 +0000

From the article:

“While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” - a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.”

This is a huge exercise in circular logic. If you set out to examine the superficialities of people, you’re going to inevitably conclude that people are superficial.

He’s also falling for the old facile canard that you can define a whole group of people as a “generation”.

This guy sound’s like a premium douche.

By: Saxon

Saxon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:40:55 +0000

Having lived in Portland Or for the last four years…prepare to be disappointed. We all look good there but no Portland party or club has ever touched the fun found that can be still be found in LA or NYC.

By: Nikolas Schiller

Nikolas Schiller — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:36:08 +0000

Angela, I transcribed the article a couple days before it was published on-line. Adbusters doesn’t always put their articles on-line and I enjoyed it enough to spend an hour on it. Anyways, I am glad you posted the link to this article, but by only copying the lead paragraph I don’t think you got the full gist of the article. While I believe the author had a somewhat limited scope in his characterization of Hipsterdom by only going out to a couple parties in Vancouver, I think much of his critique was spot on. The best part is that a significant portion of Adbusters readers, who support the ad-free magazine by their donations, could easily be defined as hipsters.