It’s awfully difficult to sum up how dumb this article is, but I will try:
1) As others have mentioned, the term “hipster” is not even close to being a new one. 15 seconds of googling would have told you that its origins go back many decades and the subculture has been around for quite a while.
2) What the hell does wearing cowboy boots have to do with being “the antithesis of a hipster?” Wearing cowboy boots and other such apparel that is inappropriate to their actual surroundings is actually quite the hipster thing to do to seem “authentic.” You stated that you wear designer clothes and appear to work in some sort of office setting. So what the hell are you wearing cowboy boots for? You doing a lot of tending to crops or feeding the animals outside of your cubicle?
3) Actually our country plummeted into debt and war well before our generation came of age and you can thank your Reagan-era idols for that. The concept of an American generation disillusioned by the crappy world they’ve been born into is not a new one; you obviously didn’t do much reading about the early 20th century in your high quality educational institution.
4) A lot of the people you’ll find “drinking craft beer” and wearing dumb ironic t-shirts around Boston are people who work in such “useless” professions as engineering, IT, computer programming, and the like. There’s a subculture around craft beer, organic food, and whatnot that many people may find annoying (myself included sometimes) but to lump this in with slackers and people who hang around in Starbucks shows some serious ignorance.
My guess is you don’t leave your oil field very often and your biggest source of information about cities where these “hipsters” live is postgradproblems.
Anyway, hipster hating has gone totally mainstream now. A lot of people were into it 5 or 6 years ago before it was cool. You’ve probably never heard of them.
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It’s awfully difficult to sum up how dumb this article is, but I will try:
1) As others have mentioned, the term “hipster” is not even close to being a new one. 15 seconds of googling would have told you that its origins go back many decades and the subculture has been around for quite a while.
2) What the hell does wearing cowboy boots have to do with being “the antithesis of a hipster?” Wearing cowboy boots and other such apparel that is inappropriate to their actual surroundings is actually quite the hipster thing to do to seem “authentic.” You stated that you wear designer clothes and appear to work in some sort of office setting. So what the hell are you wearing cowboy boots for? You doing a lot of tending to crops or feeding the animals outside of your cubicle?
3) Actually our country plummeted into debt and war well before our generation came of age and you can thank your Reagan-era idols for that. The concept of an American generation disillusioned by the crappy world they’ve been born into is not a new one; you obviously didn’t do much reading about the early 20th century in your high quality educational institution.
4) A lot of the people you’ll find “drinking craft beer” and wearing dumb ironic t-shirts around Boston are people who work in such “useless” professions as engineering, IT, computer programming, and the like. There’s a subculture around craft beer, organic food, and whatnot that many people may find annoying (myself included sometimes) but to lump this in with slackers and people who hang around in Starbucks shows some serious ignorance.
My guess is you don’t leave your oil field very often and your biggest source of information about cities where these “hipsters” live is postgradproblems.
Anyway, hipster hating has gone totally mainstream now. A lot of people were into it 5 or 6 years ago before it was cool. You’ve probably never heard of them.