Hipster Plague Facing Ironic Death?

The New York Times branded hipsters as the ‘archetype of ironic living’ this week in a ‘how to live without irony’ guide suggesting hipsters’ self conscious habits mask a ‘deep aversion to risk’ prompted by an ‘emptiness and existential malaise?’

“As a function of fear and pre-emptive shame, ironic living bespeaks cultural numbness, resignation and defeat,” ‘contemporary philosopher’  (and self confessed hipster) Leif Parsons suggested. (http://bit.ly/seF7MF )

Described by PS mag (apparently non ironically) as ‘a how to survive the current plague of hipsters’ guide, the article pointed out that fundamentalists and politically active people are amongst the new social groupings ‘never irononists’ just as leading dance journalist Katrin Richter called for nightlife luminaries to start taking drug use, in particular, ketamine, more seriously.

“Fur Coat’s “You And I - Cocaine and Ketamine” with its slurry voices is an iconic anthem for the high society. Tracks which seem to be the lullaby of our generation eschew responsibility, thus reflecting the irony of todays fast-lane-drop-out society, by consuming even more,” she said (in a lengthy feature on Meoki.net)

“It’s so normal to see passed out people on the dancefloor and ambulances driving in and out of festival grounds at a steady rhythm that no-one even mentions it anymore,” Katrin suggested. (http://bit.ly/UUdUUe )

http://bit.ly/9OnBSF (Time Out NY: Why the hipster must die; ‘“This aesthetic of (hipster) relativism grants everybody an A for effort and allows anyone projecting the image of an artist to conceive of himself as such . . .’)