People don't respect hipsters because hipsters qua hipsters are shallow. Real, fake, there's no way of distinguishing between them because none of them believe in anything at all. They just consume the currently trendy things and like some better than others.
Individual hipsters may be no more shallow than anyone; AS hipsters, they're people who buy a certain kind of clothes and whose idea of "Who am I?" is "I am a person who likes X band and wears glass that look like this." Shallow.
However, people don't really hate hipsters. What they hate is the endless flood of empty, idiotic articles about hipsters, most of which completely ignore that there is no phenomenon here. "Hipsters" have nothing in common but fashion and age. Oh, and most of them are privileged, but that's really nothing new. Whenever the media defines a generation, it only pays attention to the richest strata of society. Whatever these rich kids do, is defined as what's new. Even in a desperate case, like today's, where what they are doing is absolutely nothing.
On Being a Hipster Is an Excellent and Wonderful Thing!
People don't respect hipsters because hipsters qua hipsters are shallow. Real, fake, there's no way of distinguishing between them because none of them believe in anything at all. They just consume the currently trendy things and like some better than others.
Individual hipsters may be no more shallow than anyone; AS hipsters, they're people who buy a certain kind of clothes and whose idea of "Who am I?" is "I am a person who likes X band and wears glass that look like this." Shallow.
However, people don't really hate hipsters. What they hate is the endless flood of empty, idiotic articles about hipsters, most of which completely ignore that there is no phenomenon here. "Hipsters" have nothing in common but fashion and age. Oh, and most of them are privileged, but that's really nothing new. Whenever the media defines a generation, it only pays attention to the richest strata of society. Whatever these rich kids do, is defined as what's new. Even in a desperate case, like today's, where what they are doing is absolutely nothing.