A Bulgarian couple recently stayed with me in Sydney, and
somehow we found ourselves talking about Australian hipsters. This quickly
brought up the question: Does Bulgaria have hipsters? If so, what are they
like? Well, as it turns out, they are pretty much the same. With most of modern
life well documented on the internet trends spread across continents faster
than ever. Bulgarian hipsters, and that fact that the “hipster” word is still
so widely used, reminded me of this unpublished piece I wrote a few years ago.
So I thought I’d finally publish it. It’s a little outdated, which has its own
sense of irony, but I should really finish more of the things I start… so here
goes:
I thought it would stop by now but it hasn’t. I thought
there was enough self-awareness going around that people would catch on. But
since that doesn’t seem to be the case, because people are still posting
stories like this http://valleywag.gawker.com/douchebags-like-you-are-ruining-san-francisco-512645164
I feel this needs to be addressed. There
is a longstanding war between the hipsters and those who dislike the hipsters,
we’ll call them anti-hipsters, which ought to be settled once and for all. The combatants
of this war have changed many times but the core issue is the same, one group
of people, the anti-hipsters, doesn’t like the other, the hipsters, because the
hipsters think they are cooler than they actually are.
