NEWS: Bourgeois is as Bourgeois does

Entertainment is the new religion, and "alternative culture" with all its accruements is the new opiate of the masses.

The culture has been desensitized to a lot of things that might have seemed outlandish 15 years ago, but I guess you could have said the same thing 15 years ago, or 30 years ago. Damn, was the a cliche or what?

Anyhoo, Contrast and semyaza are wise. Hip/alternative is a Western artifice to start with, because it's based on the notion of a consumer society, the youth market, etc. One thing is constant for humankind: there will always be a small proportion of cool people, a small proportion of real assholes, and the vast spectrum of people in between who have a little of both

Btw if I'm rambling it's because I'm withdrawing from cigs. Really, I have no idea what I'm saying at this point. Um, what was the question?


Edited to say: Really, I'm not nearly this full of cliched sociological crap most of the time. It's the gottam nicotine.

[Edited on May 25, 2005 by Yo_La_Jimbo]

*Note - I did not read any of the previous posts*

Seriously, what the fuck.. I am technically young, living in an urban setting and a "professional" of sorts. Shit like this makes me look/feel like a complete tool by default. I sincerely doubt that the majority of people who think they identify with the first 2/3 of the above description even bother to read the "and is a lawyer" bit.

And what the fuck does "identifies with all things counterculture" mean? For some reason I'm hearing "pretty fly for a white guy" in my head right now.

Punk has nothing on Victor Hugo. There were riots in Paris because Hernani did not conform to neo-Classical standards.

Or Alfred Jarry. Ubu Roi had the audience to riled at the FIRST WORD that it was fifteen minutes before they could continue the play. Then, after the second word, they had to wait another fifteen.

Or The Marriage of Figaro. Louis XVI and Napoleon both said Beaumarchais' play would start a revolution.

I'm pretty sure yuppie was a term used by marketers to try to characterize a temporally distinct group of young people in the mid to late '80s, much like Generation X, Britain's Angry Young Men, etc.

I'm not sure why people want to argue about whether culturally similar but temporally distinct people have any right to their particular stake in popular culture.

possibly the best line i've heard all day.

Preach it, Brother Hepburn!

But why does this all remind me of the chapter on Genesis in American Psycho?

*thanks God for Sleater-Kinney yet again*

[Edited on May 25, 2005 9:50PM]

Bourgeois is the sound a rich guy's lightsaber would make if he were a jedi.

I thought yuppie was the antithesis of indie. Guess I'm not hip enough. This is my favorite quote from that article:

I think someone's been listening to the wrong music.

Something about this thread is making me crave processed meat.....

No fuckin' joke! But "nobody's" listening to them because they're not all the rage in Williamsburg.

There totally is, and it's awesome.

The issue is not your job nor you entertainment consumption. The issue is are you part of the problem or the solution.

Feeling guilty for making 60k at 24? Voulenteer.
Not doing a damn thing to better society and making 6.50 an hour? Shut the fuck up. Your low pay is not a ticket to bitch about other people. You need to give back to have credibility.

[Edited on May 26, 2005 1:38AM]

Yes! Being an angry looser is apparently cool... Which makes me the coolest!

Only people that have tried and failed believe that.

life just got more pathetic

Gash is such a lovely word.

and I have to say, who cares what other people are listening to and with what? I don't care that my doctor may or may not like the same music as I do, and if I had a lawyer, I wouldn't care.

I gave up caring about that when the same fucktards who made fun of me in high school for having green hair and wearing fucked up clothes started looking like me during the 90's.



[Edited on May 26, 2005 by sakita]

Ah yes, 1990, the year punk was punk.
Wow, man, that is OLD school.

Go read this. All of you. Now.

That is exactly what I was thinking of.

Commodify Your Dissent, too.

y'all are makin my eyes bleed. hey, is anyone here into bloc party? *ducks, runs*


every time people debate "culture vs. counterculture vs. popculture vs. why i bought an mp3 player vs. urban outfitters," god kills a kitten.

stellllaaaaa!