rant · moment 13 of 17
The Arrest Continues and the Death of Hipster Culture
from Through The Gate | The Tim Dillon Show #369 · #369
3 min
Tim returns to the traffic stop video as the woman resists arrest, then transitions into a riff about wokeness as a mask for self-interest, comparing it to the decline of Brooklyn hipster culture and citing a Sam Kriss essay on the subject.
- Woke politics is really just people wanting to drive drunk and not follow laws that inconvenience them.
- Tim recalls the end of hipster culture, remembering the last unicycle rider crossing the Pulaski Bridge into Greenpoint.
- Hipsters represented a time when snobbery was a religion, the last non-algorithmic attempt at telling people what is good.
- Hipsters were people who knew more bands, read theory, and dressed in thrift shop clothes like flappers from the 1920s.
- The movement ended in a clownish way when third wave people at the tail end barely understood what it was about.
- Late-stage followers claim identities they have no categorical basis for, like the woman claiming to be indigenous after getting fired up during the pandemic.
hipstersSam Chris