adbusters on hipsters

the cover story of the current issue of adbusters is called: "hipster: the dead end of western civilization." there's all sorts of potential for an adbusters article about contemporary hipsterism (and trendiness in general) to be awesome; unfortunately, the article they ended up with is kind of sucky.

i can't put it any better than they did over at the spanish rice, so i won't even try.

And yet, once you look past the headline, you notice that the article suffers from exactly the superficiality it seeks to “expose”: a fixation on appearances and surface, arty party photographs, and utterly substance-free and pseudo-revolutionary rhetoric.