Thursday, April 30, 2015
The problem with modern hipsters
Someone called the modern hipsters the
“spent force” of postmodernism, but the hipsters are more like
the culmination of postmodernism, Nietzsche's children who were taught by the academic world to see no
real foundation for values and morality, other than a pseudo-creative
and goalless will-to-power. So we have their identifying pose of irony.
Here is the problem with the hipsters:
the things they champion, androgyny--the rejection of male and female
ideals--, feminism, multiculturalism, and the general dismissal of
cultural norms, does not harmonize or relate to real human
nature---and that defines phoniness.
Actual human nature remains as it has
always been, kin-centered, gender defined, age-grading, heterosexual
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among
other mostly traditional things, with group-selection (not
hyperindivualism) as the primary unit of selection.
A fool is more comical when he does not know
he is a fool. If they weren't arrogant you might feel sorry for the
modern hipsters who are trying to find identity in a world that has
taken away any real identity.
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