Opinion! How to Live Without Irony

[Gerald]

If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of ironic living.

The hipster haunts every city street and university town. Manifesting a nostalgia for times he never lived himself, this contemporary urban harlequin appropriates outmoded fashions (the mustache, the tiny shorts), mechanisms (fixed-gear bicycles, portable record players) and hobbies (home brewing, playing trombone). He harvests awkwardness and self-consciousness. Before he makes any choice, he has proceeded through several stages of self-scrutiny. The hipster is a scholar of social forms, a student of cool. He studies relentlessly, foraging for what has yet to be found by the mainstream. He is a walking citation; his clothes refer to much more than themselves. He tries to negotiate the age-old problem of individuality, not with concepts, but with material things.

I feel young,

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...without-irony/

Note: November 17, 2012

[soopaman2]

*shoots himself in the head with a .50cal.*

[Stealhead]

I like this basically she is saying if you dislike hipsters you see something of yourself in them.Therefore you should change yourself.

"People may choose to continue hiding behind the ironic mantle, but this choice equals a surrender to commercial and political entities more than happy to act as parents for a self-infantilizing citizenry."
"So rather than scoffing at the hipster;a favorite hobby, especially of hipsters; determine whether the ashes of irony have settled on you as well. It takes little effort to dust them away."

[Red Brow]

But these folks look a great deal like what Chuck portrayed as NERDS. My youngest kid hangs with such a crowd - and at times I mistook their dress as perhaps harking back to what was cool in the early 70s. But then I realized that none of them really were cool, that even some old farts I knew from Texas redneck ville were many times cooler than these kids. The kids here like to refer to themselves as Nerds, but I have not found that any of them would qualify as that back in the 80s or 90s.

Please enlighten me.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Red Brow

But these folks look a great deal like what Chuck portrayed as NERDS. My youngest kid hangs with such a crowd - and at times I mistook their dress as perhaps harking back to what was cool in the early 70s. But then I realized that none of them really were cool, that even some old farts I knew from Texas redneck ville were many times cooler than these kids. The kids here like to refer to themselves as Nerds, but I have not found that any of them would qualify as that back in the 80s or 90s.

Please enlighten me.

Well your kids are hipsters then.


(this part is assuming that you where not attempting sarcasm above you know that a little ,, can go along way soopaman I know his style well enough yours I do not and I'm not the only one)

Did you read the article?

Read the article it should be clear what the meaning is you should not need to be enlightened if you read it.If you did read it read it again because you missed the point.

[Red Brow]

who is a hipster, cause that child insists on being called a Nerd.