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because i'm an American racist from the south ;) what can i say? i think minorities need to accept their natural place in the pecking order.

Pretentious!

nice talking Rich

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it's worse if you go to law school and have the money to pull off the image. it depends what kind of rock i guess. race doesn't matter. i hate when i get accused of 'reverse-racism.' that is pc on a sickening level. but yeah most of the music i like is pretentious by any definition of the...

yes but that is someone i would definitely hang out with. maybe it's all subjective, and maybe everyone, when you really analyze it objectively, is a fucking douchebag.

the list isn't spiteful at all. if anything thsoe are old cliches for the narcissistic, feathered-haired prep or bourgeois. forget it. this thread is a disaster. all the nitpicking about self-reflexive pretension is very circular.

it's all in good fun. really. :)

hipsters are suburban kids from Williamsburg, VA who move to New York and affect an urban-authentic posture. they are braindead. the hookah smoking guy with IBS (i'm not sure how a chronic marijuana smoker could read 2 pages of Deleuze, or Kojeve, or Lacan, or any of the other alleged...

at this point: "pretentiousness," and this from Kant's Third Critique :):

in the sense of fairness, yeah. another example in the same vein: people with only one (fake) name like Seal. or Cher.

i am slowly destroying my nervous system.

Let the Right One In

same here. there are healthy and unhealthy forms of narcissism. usually it's healthy in the sense of being socially healthy, or conformist. i don't ofc agree with this definition of psychiatric/sociological health. i think everyone falls into one of those categories. narcissism is a neurotic...

i guess this is pretentious but - quoting from a secondary source on Lacan's definition of narcissism: "Secondary narcissism is the more 'normal' form, where older children and adults seek personal gratification over the achievement of social goals and conformance to social values. A degree of...

maker's mark and xanax

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavoshgar-1

anyone the status of Iran's ICBMs? The Sahab (i think) can reach Isreal, but it isn't intercontinental. You can put a small amount of plutonium on the end mixed with other elements like a dirty bomb. It could easily wipe out Jerusalem.

excellent point. glad you are posting here friend.

that's true - someone else mentioned marketing here i think - you could also throw in conservatism (talk radio), false-pretense like the Colbert Report, independent media, neo-marxists/subculturalists, message board hacks/failed writers - anyone with a smug tone of self-importance, but...