YES. I remember and thoroughly agree with your depression-drag theory.
I think it's a whole depressed/nihilistic aesthetic. And it just cuts me to the quick. Like--how can you believe in NOTHING? How can you prescribe to the idea that there's no value not only in your own original ideas, but in the ideas of everyone throughout history? (And what I mean by that is, the relentless borrowing. The non sequiturs of their Victorian hats worn with a hole-filled T-shirt PBR T-shirt. It disregards not only the ideas/fashions/creative arts being generated by awesome people working hard in earnest to enrich our collective experiences on this planet--it disregards the meaning and context of the ideas/fashions/creative arts that it is borrowing.) And, maybe I haven't said it here--but I love Postmodernism. I really do. But at a point (the point where we now are), it's a movement that cannibalizes itself. Borrowing and decontextualizing everything until nothing has any meaning. And that's all well and good--but eventually even the ACT of decontextualizing loses all meaning. So, the postmodernist (ie hipster) has destroyed himself and his own statement.
And frankly, I'm way less concerned with them destroying their own statement than I am with them appropriating/mocking the earnest lifestyles of others. But... I'm just kind of rambling here.
I hope some of that made sense.
And also--I need to go read your Wesley essay PART DEUX! I've been a little scattered (if you can't tell from this comment), but I'm going to read it and revel in your genius!
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I think it's a whole depressed/nihilistic aesthetic. And it just cuts me to the quick. Like--how can you believe in NOTHING? How can you prescribe to the idea that there's no value not only in your own original ideas, but in the ideas of everyone throughout history? (And what I mean by that is, the relentless borrowing. The non sequiturs of their Victorian hats worn with a hole-filled T-shirt PBR T-shirt. It disregards not only the ideas/fashions/creative arts being generated by awesome people working hard in earnest to enrich our collective experiences on this planet--it disregards the meaning and context of the ideas/fashions/creative arts that it is borrowing.) And, maybe I haven't said it here--but I love Postmodernism. I really do. But at a point (the point where we now are), it's a movement that cannibalizes itself. Borrowing and decontextualizing everything until nothing has any meaning. And that's all well and good--but eventually even the ACT of decontextualizing loses all meaning. So, the postmodernist (ie hipster) has destroyed himself and his own statement.
And frankly, I'm way less concerned with them destroying their own statement than I am with them appropriating/mocking the earnest lifestyles of others. But... I'm just kind of rambling here.
I hope some of that made sense.
And also--I need to go read your Wesley essay PART DEUX! I've been a little scattered (if you can't tell from this comment), but I'm going to read it and revel in your genius!