In class recently, we discussed the evolution and overall art of being a hipster. The idea of being a part of a counter culture that goes against the grain and says no to showers and mainstream music. The concept of being different from everyone else by wearing a flannel you got from a consignment shop. This all sounds really great and empowering, but how does one become a part of such a movement?
Being a hipster, in my opinion, really is not a thing. Hipsters are constantly changing what their idea of cool so how is anything ever relevant. Maybe nothing is ever relevant to hipsters. They can't even like a band for more than a month because than they become "mainstream" or they "sell out." I have a friend, Gabe. In my opinion, he is a true hipster. He wears a suit jacket as a coat, drinks whiskey out of a plastic cup with a manatee on it and only listens to vinyls because the sound of anything else is just "disrespectful and empty." But in all reality, is he a hipster or is he just a prick?
Watching the spoof video about hipsters made by the Harvard Sailing Team was very comical. They talked about it as if it were an epidemic that required medicine. But in a sense, this is kind of true. Like in the video, these seem more like symptoms than actual human attributes. This is a widely spread idea of a fictional being that people will never live up to.
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