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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