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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: cutout on August 04, 2008, 01:06:38 PM
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There was a minute in the mid-90s when I didn't think Adbusters was probably written by college freshman, but now I'm suspicious. The writing/reasoning has only gotten sillier and now they have thrown down the gauntlet on hipster culture, aka, the "Dead End of Western Civilization" -
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
Apologies in advance, I know it's just more hipster-bashing. But it's almost worth it for the writing and the (self-) hate pit that is the comments section.
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Ha! You should check out the Hipster Debate '08 thread. Already in progress!
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Ha! You should check out the Hipster Debate '08 thread. Already in progress!
Ugh. That thread was cool, before it got stripped of it working-class, revolutionary blah blah blah.
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I read that article in the magazine this weekend. I actually thought it was okay. They were pointing out how today's "counterculture" has just become this self-obsessed, consumerist mob. Yes, it's obvious, but a valid and important issue none the less.
I like Adbusters, but I always take everything they say with a grain of salt, particularly this article, because they too make money off of the counterculture.
A few years ago, they put out an issue that was written as if the world was in a post-revolution state (modern capitalist culture had ended as we know it). They had these fake letters, as if people were writing in to the magazine, saying how they were surviving, etc. One of the fake letters was particularly memorable, because it was "written" by an angry guy who was pissed at Adbusters' profiting off of social change and counterculture, and it ended with "fuck you and your seven dollar cover price". So I suppose even they are aware of the hypocrisy. And yes, they sound like college freshmen, but considering that the college freshman is their target audience, I don't find that surprising.