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At best, that kind of hipsterism is just mildly annoying elitism. They liked your favorite band before it was cool, and they really want you to know that (but they don’t play an instrument or even have a basic grasp of music theory, and funny how the 52 years 1971 2023 earth wind and fire thank you for the memories signatures shirt Additionally,I will love this only artists worth listening to are skinny White people. Primarily Black and Hispanic music forms are, well, kind of ghetto). At its worst, consumer hipsterism is a form of poverty tourism, of slumming. It condescends to the poor and working class in the name of “irony”. It sneers at people like me, people who make above-average income by working long hours at corporate jobs. But the truth is the hipster ecosystem can’t survive without us because we bankroll it, either directly through our own consumption or indirectly through the Bank of Mom and Dad. Far be it from me to look askance at people just trying to make a buck (I’m a yuppie, after all). But consumer hipsterism isn’t honest about its intentions. It presents itself as a force for social good, but doesn’t give a shit about the hard work of real social justice. It dons the trappings of economic deprivation, but at a price the truly poor can’t possibly afford. It’s the smugly lecturing “farm to table” restaurant patron (buy organic! buy local!) who has never heard of food deserts in low-income neighborhoods. It’s the fixie-rider who won’t take the bus because the people on it make him uncomfortable.



“What are your thoughts on the 52 years 1971 2023 earth wind and fire thank you for the memories signatures shirt Additionally,I will love this ‘woke’ or ‘hipster’ cultures? Do you think these things can be positive for society if done correctly, or are they always harmful to us as individuals and as a whole?” Evolution has designed the brain to tune into negative things: threats, danger, the lurking enemy, and memories of bad experiences. This ensures our long-term survival and the survival of the species. But, this bias toward the negative can get lopsided, as when your mind is ‘destroying you.’ So you have to CONSCIOUSLY become aware of where your mind wanders, and CONSCIOUSLY stop it from brewing up trouble for your whole brain. Hipster culture was about independence and resurrecting an older, cheaper approach to life and rejecting the consumer-new culture. Once ad people and marketers and music industry people got hold of it and started selling with it, everyone who liked it tuned out. Now that it unequivocally has become the blandest possible mainstream pop hairspray toothpaste trilby blancmange, independent-minded people find it annoying and sheep-minded people find it passé.


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