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“The hipster represents what can happen to middle class whites, particularly, and to all elites, generally, when they focus on the struggles for their own pleasures and luxuries—seeing these as daring and confrontational—rather than asking what makes their sort of people entitled to them, who else suffers for their pleasures, and where their ‘rebellion’ adjoins social struggles that should obligate anybody who hates authority.
Or, worse: the hipster is the subcultural type generated by neoliberalism, that infamous tendency of our time to privatize public goods and make an upward redistribution of wealth. Hipster values exalt political reaction, masquerading as rebellion, behind the mask of ‘vice’ (a hipster keyword). Hipster art and thought, where they exist, too often champion repetition and childhood, primitivism and plush animal masks. And hipster anti-authoritarianism bespeaks a ruse by which the middle-class young can forgive themselves for abandoning the claims of counterculture—whether punk, anti-capitalist, anarchist, nerdy, or ’60s—while retaining the coolness of subculture. It risks turning future avant-gardes into communities of ‘early adopters.’”
Mark Greif, Preface to “What was the Hipster? A Sociological Investigation” (2010)(Source: z-bra)
