ben de bir hipster haiku’su yazayim dalga adina:

Snowy hipsters hoop
I’m the only one who
Is not in a band

bir tane daha:

I know Atari
She knows only Nintendo
Generation gap

[...]It never ceases to amaze me how everyone of my generation (I assume you’re an old fart like me) loves to rag on the next one, even though we didn’t do JACK SHIT. I could go on and on about their greater political engagement, their better music, their better art, their better drugs, their racial harmony, their comfort with their sexuality. And I will one day (in three weeks when it becomes hip). But seriously. What did WE do? Invent hip hop? Sure. Our whole generation does seem to rush to take credit for that.
And, finally. I’m old, fat and use a car service to get around, but if you stop and think about it, a fixed gear bike with breaks on it is kind of awesome on like three different levels. Have you ever tried to stop one of those things?[...]

demis birisi, aslinda sik sik alintiladigim, cok begendigim bi paragraf vardir, otostopcunun galaksi rehberi’nin yazari douglas adams’in:

“I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

“What they may or may not know is that “cool-hunters” will also be skulking the same sites, taking note of how they dress and what they consume. These marketers and party-promoters get paid to co-opt youth culture and then re-sell it back at a profit. In the end, hipsters are sold what they think they invent and are spoon-fed their pre-packaged cultural livelihood.

Hipsterdom is the first “counterculture” to be born under the advertising industry’s microscope, leaving it open to constant manipulation but also forcing its participants to continually shift their interests and affiliations. Less a subculture, the hipster is a consumer group – using their capital to purchase empty authenticity and rebellion. But the moment a trend, band, sound, style or feeling gains too much exposure, it is suddenly looked upon with disdain. Hipsters cannot afford to maintain any cultural loyalties or affiliations for fear they will lose relevance.”