Posted on 06/30/2010 7:49:05 AM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III
Somewhere in America right now a Religious Studies graduate in white shutter shades is sucking the Pabst Blue Ribbon from his wispy mustache while listening to a pig-tailed girl offer her position on Metamorphosis. They are hipsters. I know this because I met them. They hang out in front of a Coffee Bean. They are Aubrey and Aubrey and they live for the moments when strangers suggest that name ought to be gender exclusive. They work part-time gathering signatures for obscure causes and spend the rest of their time arguing about Sartre and Derrida and who borrowed whose pants.
They are preparing for a revolution, slowly.
When I first met the Aubreys, they carried clipboards and told me that if I wasn’t furious then I wasn’t paying attention. I wasn’t furious at the time, I was embarrassed. I didn’t know what I was supposed to be furious about, which started to feel like furiousness and that seemed like a pretty good start.
“The American consumer is the raping and murdering foreign cultures,” mustached Aubrey told me while jabbing a finger in my chest. He was pale and even behind his glasses I could see that he was ugly. He had the kind of face you could believe was cooked up inside a human body, not like the usual miracles you see running around. “Who do you think made those sandals you’re wearing?” he spat. “Those cutoff jeans? That Looney Tunes sweatshirt?” It was a laundry day. “I’ll tell you who, some poor kid in the third world getting paid pennies so that you could save a couple of bucks.”
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“The American consumer is the raping and murdering foreign cultures,” mustached Aubrey told me while jabbing a finger in my chest
The Conversation would have ended here for me when i grabbed “Aubrey’s” finger..twisted it... then told him to get a job...pull up “his” pants...and grow up.....LOL
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Dude, stop it with the reactionary hermeneutic.
Great post.
A buddy at work went to SXSW this year in Austin. (I lived there as a kid, but mostly grew up in D/FW)
I shook my head and explained that’s not my scene. He acknowledged that as truth.
He slept on the floor along with 12 other people at a buddies place in..Prepare to be shocked...South Austin.
Damn Dirty Hippies.
(Can’t wait to go home in a few weeks, but I’ll be down where the normal people live. Round Rock)
Serial nihilism...
Nihilism is what the left (and their ideological father) promotes.
The result of nihilism (meaninglessness of life) is the devaluing of the individual human (imageo dei) in favor of empowering the “perpetuity” of the State.
Exactly what the left and Satan desire.
LOL! Great article. Nailed it.
Donny: Are these the Nazis, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: No, Donny, these men are nihilists. There’s nothing to be afraid of.
If you don’t get rid of the Giggling Stoners and the DrumCircles you will suffer an infestation of the college know it all hippies next.
John Barth wrote a hilarious novel (whose name I have on the tip of my tongue) about a guy who spends the day preparing to commit suicide, but is so overcome with nihilism that he can’t bring himself to do it.
The college know it all hippies are the worst.
Nothing worse than someone who thinks he’s intellectually and morally superior and stinks of BO and hemp.
So accurate!
Much like their mentors the Beats...they are quite queer too
I will have to check it out!
I just reminded myself to take it to the beach for the 4th.
Exactly what the left and Satan desire.
Precisely. And the outcomes? Slaughter, mass murder, enslavement and impoverishment: hell on earth.
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