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We’re All Living in Portlandia
Once in a while, a popular word will snowball into a state of such broad explanatory use that thoughtful people must either whittle it down to a more definite size or call for its utter dissolution. This is the present state of hipster, a term wielded with equal frequency as a fashion, a movement, a demographic, and even an insult.
In 2008, Adbusters ran an article with a title that is, to date, still the only title to successfully convince me to read Adbusters. It was called “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization.” This article came at just the right time with just the right dose of acid to make it one of the most important pieces of social journalism of our time. In it Douglas Haddow defined “hipsterdom” as an ugly and regrettable mutation of Western counterculture. Its chameleonic quality–wearing the symbols of countercultural…
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