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Yep... what's old is new again... and again... and again...

When I was young and in touch with fashion it was all cut off army pants, dr Martin boots, band tshirts and flannelette shirts... which is close to what was in fashion 20 odd years earlier... it all comes back around, like a record (which hipsters love;)

Edit: I should add I'm waiting for baggy pants to come back! Can't stand this skinny shit the kids are getting around in

Too right with the skinny jeans! Worst thing is my girl is trying to get me to get a pair! Have you tried them on? Most uncomfortable!

Yeah, can't do it. I need some room to move in my southern necessities! Constantly on the hunt for "regular" or "loose" fit pants.

Here here!

"... when it boils down to it, humans are in essence, biological machines - programmed through genetics and culture to do, act, and be exactly as chemically-structured to - and it really is a rarity that the molds be broken." Many have fought the programing of cultures over the ages and now are fighting the programing of genetics. Are we not beginning to modify our genes and merge technological hardware with our biological machines? Keep breaking molds!! The human spirit needs to control its destiny/reality and that includes finances. Blockchain for Life!!

So hip

Lol.

😂 I'm in agreement. It's completely insane how time works. I'm sure when our parents were younger they listened to music that their parents couldn't stand; and so on. I still haven't got used to posting my every move on Snapchat let alone any other social site. I guess it's just they way the wave goes. Haha thanks for posting @rok-sivante :)

Maybe a grumpy old man with too much time to think. It's cool to acknowledge development and new technology (blockchain), and to be innovative. I'm embracing the decentralization!

Thanks for the read man

Very entertaining read hahah. I appreciate how you point out the cookie cutter nature of this whole movement that is supposed to be anything but cookie cutter. Thanks for sharing!

that many of them, too, felt unable to fit into any of society's cultural groupings limiting their freedom of self-expression

From the more eclectic people I've talked to...this seems to be the case. People have a desire to be unique, and it seems they will express themselves juuuuust enough to receive that designation.

Great post, as usual. The readability of your writing is improving as well! Great job!

Great post! It's really odd being the only one you resonate with, but you're right, we di seek our own tribes.

In our brave new world, we translate that into, as you put it, a "socially-encoded interpretive structure".

I guess in the end, we're all just walking each other home.

It's just the new generation and the cycle of life lol. There will always be weird trends on the rise and different things that come and go. The main point is that you keep true to yourself and keep enjoying life :)

Amen. ✊

In brooklyn ny it was a very big trend, im seeing less and less of it but maybe thats a good thing. Maybe weed out the weak ones...haha

I agree, I'm prob your age and becoming a young old man lol

10 years from now, hipster stuff will be history and we'll be seeing something that's more extreme! Mark my words!

deal with it.gif

Very interesting post! Thank you!

in Bali hum well terima kasih ....!!

Being at the ripe old age of 61, I'm starting to actually understand how my parents felt about the trends of the late 60s and 70s. It was so different from what they grew up with. It's kind of weird to realize that the internet didn't exist until I was almost 40 years old. The hipster "thing" seems rather tame compared to some of the trends that came before it...

I will give you the same answer I receive when I talk like you:

YOU ARE GETTING OLD

Lol. :-D

We may all become hipsters one day but it's crazy to see how society changes and the new fashion trends that come with it

I went to university in Wyoming and there were 5 pairs of skinny jeans for every one pair of Wranglers lol

Totally resonate...but we as the learned ones can re-educate the young ones, because they already see the veils of illusion we are lifting. We are stepping in to the new earth paradigm, it is really our generation that needs to break the societal templates and all that crap that has been embedded in our brains for the new to fully emerge. I have faith we can and will make this, but first there will be chaos, because it is inevitable. Great article, thanks for your powerful words!

get with the times grandpa!