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Defending The Hipster

I received the image above with my morning inbox dose of press releases and a selection of Groupons for hair removal and vacations in countries I’m pretty sure are in the midst of civil upheaval. According to some reblogging over at Mashable, where this was put up by user Sam Laird, this image depicts “the one true hipster to rule them all”.

I laughed.

Along with some pretty sardonic commentary, Laird includes a checklist of what he considers the most obvious traits that have rendered this guy ‘King of All Hipsters’, including his outfit and goatee (which, admittedly, we can barely see here). It’s Friday and I’ve got fire in my veins again, so all this really did was get me thinking: What’s so bad about hipsters anyway?

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Beau Lewis talks “The American Hipster” [Video]

This was a recent TEDx talk someone dropped me a link to. A pretty interesting discussion of “The American Hipster”, but really more of a discussion on the culture and behavior of Generation-Y in general. He raises some key points surrounding the “hipster” character that I’ve discussed elsewhere and will probably do s’more talking about soon as well. Most importantly, he recognizes the base desire of a subculture to remain misunderstood and unclaimed in order to preserve a sense of legitimacy. Or, to put it simply, he points out why hipsters are always so fucking ironic about everything.

Check out the video below:

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