Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!

[jamespowers]

I think the issue is that for a portion of the hipsters, their interest in things like self-sufficiency, whole foods, etc. is part of a long line of people who have done the same thing, just by a different name: in the 40s and 50s they were "back to the landers," in the 60s and 70s they were "hippies," and in the 80s and 90s they were "homesteaders."

Most of these people came to the back to the land movement by some other means- for instance- a lot of hippies first got exposed to going back to the land through contact with other people in the movement who had done so (or wanted to do so.) Of course, the vast majority of hippies didn't go back to the land, so not every hippie is a back to the lander. And not every back to the lander is a hippie- it was simply a larger movement that supposedly had ideals like treating the earth kindly. Some people took those ideals to mean that they should homestead. I think the hipster focus on organic and whole foods is a similar ideal- some will take that to heart (much like some of the hippies did)- and some of those people will head back to the land.

Hippies only contact with the land was to grow dope. lol lol lol

 

[ButteMT61]

We shop whole foods. Good, but expensive. Also like trader joes. But we grow a lot ourselves and the chickies give us plenty of eggs. Lots of our neighbors do the same. You can tell a person who does it for hip and those who do it for real. It's fun and the grandkids love it.
As for growing dope, might need to supplement my income one day lol
Juicing is the best thing we started. Never felt better. But I'm still ugly.

 

[ButteMT61]

PS. Only time Sanka will do is desperation on camping trips when we forget real coffee. Sorry, but nothing like dark, freshly ground eye-Talian.

 

[LizzieMaine]

How can you possibly resist a face like that? I'd think the hipsters would be all over him.

 

[vitanola]

How can you possibly resist a face like that? I'd think the hipsters would be all over him.

Kaffe HAG for mine!

 

[ButteMT61]

How can you possibly resist a face like that? I'd think the hipsters would be all over him.

Well, I'm not a hipster! lolBut grandpa drank Folgers...

 

[jamespowers]

We shop whole foods. Good, but expensive. Also like trader joes. But we grow a lot ourselves and the chickies give us plenty of eggs. Lots of our neighbors do the same. You can tell a person who does it for hip and those who do it for real. It's fun and the grandkids love it.
As for growing dope, might need to supplement my income one day lol
Juicing is the best thing we started. Never felt better. But I'm still ugly.

Oh geez! You might be a secret Hipster! Come clean and confess now.
I have been to both of those places and I can say that the produce those places carry is nasty. It might be organic but heck they should do something about the pests. The stuff has holes in it from bugs and the color is off. If I had to eat that stuff I would starve. Undersized fruit too. PU!
Move away from the dope......:laser::hippie: Got him!

 

[jamespowers]

PS. Only time Sanka will do is desperation on camping trips when we forget real coffee. Sorry, but nothing like dark, freshly ground eye-Talian.

Oh geez! Another Hipster trait! Repent Sinner!
The next thing you will be wanting a triple soy Latte with organic whip cream made by blind monks in the French Countryside and made from coffee beans slightly used by suricats and collected by virgins in Africa.

 

[jamespowers]

Well, I'm not a hipster! lolBut grandpa drank Folgers...

He was a Mountain Grown Man.

 

[LizzieMaine]

...and it'll still taste like burnt pencils.

 

[jamespowers]

How can you possibly resist a face like that? I'd think the hipsters would be all over him.

Yeah, they would want to steal his Hookah pipe.

 

[jamespowers]

...and it'll still taste like burnt pencils.

The best burnt pencils money can buy.
Would Mrs. Olson lie to us?:
[video=youtube_share;i77sVmORreI]http://youtu.be/i77sVmORreI[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Juan Valdez is da man!

 

[ButteMT61]

Juan Valdez is da man!

He and his burro were hipsters lol

 

[W4ASZ]

Juan Valdez is da man!

El Exigente is the Man ! :coffee:





Carlos Montalban - no hipster !

 

[vitanola]

Well, as it is rather late, "Mr. Coffee Nerves" is the only mascot that comes to mind.

Except, perhaps, for that little can of G. Washington's Coffee standing at attention, with shouldered teaspoon.

Well, off to the kitchen for a cup of Postum, and off to Nod!

 

[LoveMyHats2]

I was reading back through this thread. How did kale enter the discussion? Are we discussing the dietary habits of the hipster now?

It may be just that! lol!

I read a comment about the hipsters going "back to the land"...we all do that some day in the future....and as for the tea or coffee element, gee whiz, I think I buy the cheapest coffee I can find and add to it with some vanilla bean mixed in to spruce it up...and for tea...only one tea for me...nettle tea.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

I don't necessarily dispute any of that. But I don't necessarily agree with it either.

Sure, there's often a reason a stereotype takes hold. Those labelled "hipsters" in this thread may indeed exhibit an unusual propensity for self-satisfaction and a fondness for irony or whatever. But then, we're talking about young people predominantly, right? Anything new about that? Lord knows that many of my cohort during my 20s were insufferable know-it-alls. You know, if only the world listened to us, why, we'd have a f%#@ing utopia!

What you've identified, I think, is the tendency for people to seek group identity, and identifiers. A common sight in this mostly blue-collar district in which I've lived for the past 3 1/2 years are pickup trucks sporting window decals proclaiming why this person's Ford, Chevy or Dodge pickup is clearly superior to that other person's Ford, Chevy or Dodge pickup. From what I can tell, the people affixing those decals to their trucks are actually serious about this. It might seem like a joke to the rest of us, but apparently not to them.

There's always been that tension between individuality and community. It's our lot, you know, and it always has been.

When I was in my adolescence and "hippie" styles were current there was a slim volume available through Scholastic Book Services titled "How to Be a Nonconformist." Yes, the title was meant to be ironic, of course. I just now did a quick search and came upon this entry about it and its author ...

https://pogoer.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/how-to-be-a-nonconformist-a-fond-remembrance/

Seems that little has changed, except the titles.

Now I just hope to live long enough to truly outgrow certain of these less-constructive human tendencies.

Quick aside: The guy I bought my greenhouse from is a unusually large fellow -- a longshoreman who drinks beer and bourbon and drives a pickup and listens to country music. At first glance you might think him a cross between Archie Bunker and Hulk Hogan. He has the most impressive organic, pesticide-free, certified urban wildlife sanctuary garden I've ever seen.

I have to really agree with your statement and observation. I think perhaps at some point in our life when we were younger, we go through that "all elbows" phase and have to learn what direction we should be going for ourselves in life. I also think just as we learned (for myself it was a combination of parental guidance, and the school of hard knocks) we as individuals develop into adults and the learning process of change.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Beard -- check.

Appropriated keffiyeh -- check.

Ironic wearing of grandmother's nightgown -- check.

Slurping coffee like it's going out of style -- check.

 

[Shangas]

New bumper sticker idea:

SAVE THE KALE!

Bugger the kale! Support charity-shops - Wear vintage