
Originally Posted by
josef k.
The hipster, I think, is being shoehorned into place here in order to account for the fact of Adbuster's own decreasing political status, as a kind of substitute for a positive initiative, or a strategic rethink, which would be much difficult to do. With nothing to propose, the fall-back position is one of condemnation. You can see similar rhetorical operations at work in the socialist, or post-socialist British left. I remember one fellow-traveler once telling me, with a perfectly straight-face - in fact, quite angrily: "Hippies are *the* enemy." "Really?" I thought to myself at the time, "*The* Enemy? Really?"
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