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In reading an old issue (No 79) of Adbusters, that my brother brought back from Canada a couple of years ago, I came across an article about the Hipster generation by Douglas Haddow. After typing out an extract onto this blogging site, a compenent of the said culture under interrogation, I caught myself and laughed. Nevertheless, I found that this encapsulated the genre that has swallowed our youth realistically and honestly.

‘We’ve reached a point in our civilisation where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality, and is leaving a generation pointlessly obsessing over fashion, faux oroginality, cultural capital and the commodities of style.

… An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilisation - a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” - a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.’