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Whole Foods Mentality: lazy man's way of rattling off hipster's characteristics. Wasn't referring to it directly.
And I hate kale, too. Disgusting stuff. Blech.
Whole Foods mentality: thinking it's all well and good when a Whole Foods displaces an old line mom-and-pop supermarket even though the working-class people who used to patronize the latter cannot afford to shop at the former. An approach that reeks of that hipster hallmark, oblivious class privilege.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to eat "natural" food. But better you should buy it from an actual farmer, not some big chain operation that's as viciously corporate and anti-worker as Walmart. John Mackey has never seen a nickel of my money, and never will.
My birds love it. I hate it too. That just goes to prove that kale is indeed for the birds.
I was reading back through this thread. How did kale enter the discussion? Are we discussing the dietary habits of the hipster now?
So far I haven't taken to growing kale on my roof.
I gather that "Whole Foods" is a chain? I first thought it referred to some natural food/organic-type movement.
If you haven't seen it, watch the film Our Idiot Brother. Paul Rudd plays the idiot brother, a sort of Lebowski-esque, organic food growing, candle-making pot head who inadvertently brings his squabbling family back together.
Check out his ex-girlfriend and her new bf. Hipsters meet hippies meet lordy knows what...
I've nothing against hipsters myself.
In fact, I keep three in my basement as pets.
Sauerkraut is just as good for you, and a lot cheaper.
I was reading back through this thread. How did kale enter the discussion? Are we discussing the dietary habits of the hipster now?
So far I haven't taken to growing kale on my roof.
Well said tonyb. It comes off as a suckerpunch when older folks who've lived their lives and made their mistakes take shots at young folks just being young and doing what most of us have done.
I’ve observed among the older hipster types a sincere interest in handicrafts, gardening, whole foods, anti-consumer attitudes, etc. My wife is a longtime knitter/crochet/quilter. I was surprised to see how many hipster types are into these crafts. Likewise the appreciation of quality handmade goods, clothing, and gardening. There is a solid group of older hipster types that are all about the “thinking locally, acting globally” mentality.
We may loath to admit it but there is another subculture keeping alive many of the traits of the culture of the Greatest Generation..
Back-to-the-landers and hipsters are two different things. You hardly ever see back-to-the-landers in town because they're usually busy, working hard on their land. They don't play urban kickball, ride unicycles, play ukuleles, or sit around coffeehouses talking about how much they hate big multinational corporations while pausing to take calls on their shiny new Apple Brand I-Phones (reg. TM.). Back-to-the-landers actually walk the walk, and while they might not always smell good, their smell is the smell of honest labor, not the stink of Parliaments mixed with fair-trade patchouli.
I respect back to the landers. But I still don't like beards.
Back-to-the-landers and hipsters are two different things. You hardly ever see back-to-the-landers in town because they're usually busy, working hard on their land. They don't play urban kickball, ride unicycles, play ukuleles, or sit around coffeehouses talking about how much they hate big multinational corporations while pausing to take calls on their shiny new Apple Brand I-Phones (reg. TM.). Back-to-the-landers actually walk the walk, and while they might not always smell good, their smell is the smell of honest labor, not the stink of Parliaments mixed with fair-trade patchouli.
I respect back to the landers. But I still don't like beards.
New bumper sticker idea:
SAVE THE KALE!
Like a few others, I had not heard of hipsters prior to reading about them here in the Lounge. Having done some scholarly research, I found the following:
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
“Ever since the Allies bombed the Axis into submission, Western civilization has had a succession of counter-culture movements that have energetically challenged the status quo. Each successive decade of the post-war era has seen it smash social standards, riot and fight to revolutionize every aspect of music, art, government and civil society.
But after punk was plasticized and hip hop lost its impetus for social change, all of the formerly dominant streams of "counter-culture" have merged together. Now, one mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior has come to define the generally indefinable idea of the "Hipster." An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning.
Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the "hipster" – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.”