This rant about anti-hipsters and hipsters will probably make no sense because I’m sitting on the fence so hard that we’re in danger of losing a paling.

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I’m really sick of people wasting valuable space ranting about Hipsters and how annoying they are.(in print, not on the net. You can write what you want on the net because the net is limitless, despite what this guy says).  It’s a fashion. It’s like lots of other fashions. Granted, this one started from an anti-fashion stance but still. It’s a fad.
Yes, there are the hipster kids who do it because they want to be cool and anti-establishment, and seem really intelligent by quoting Sartre and other writers, poets and philosophers that were most recently popular when women wore hoops under their skirts.  Yes, they have the $200 haircut to look like they never cut their hair. And the glasses. But don’t get me started on the glasses. (that was such a stupid article. There is always a current trend for specs. When I was 11 I had giant lenses in a tortoise shell frame because that’s what everybody else had, but no one wrote newspaper articles about it) . Yes, they want people to know that they Don’t Give A Fuck about low-brow, crass, commercial crap.

These people do piss me off a bit. But only in a bemused, sympathetic kinda way, because I just think that probably started with a few of the ‘hipster’ interests, but didn’t feel like they were hardcore enough and so went all out on some sort of insecure self improvement bender. I do get this because I like reading Shakespeare, and I like indie bands, but I don’t like poetry, I enjoy dance festivals, and I have an active interest in politics and world-y stuff. I’m pretty happy in my interests. But when I hang out with full-on hipster dudes I feel so very very straight-laced. But then I go home and realise that I can read a bit of Hamlet, but if I get bored I can turn on the tele and watch the Biggest Loser without having intellectual guilt pangs.

The thing that gets me with all this bitching and moaning is that it’s being treated as though it’s some special social phenomenon, and that every single one of these kids is a try-hard fake. There are people that actually DO like  to read Satre. They DO like to write poetry and wear black framed specs. They DO like listening to the Animal Collective because they find the music quite enjoyable and pleasing to the ear. But nobody believes them because it’s (ironically) becoming cool to jump on the anti-hipster bandwagon.

It’s exactly the friggen same as every other trend ever in the history of everything. Ever. There are people that follow a trend because they want to project a certain image. There are those that do it because they want to be cool. Then there are those that just enjoy the things that happen to be fashionable.

Here’s a maths equation for ya. Imagine the Red Inanimate Object represents a copy of Satre, or some obscure indie band from Ohio.

Having said that, when someone uses the word ‘bourgeois’ I want to punch them in the eyebrow.

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