Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

WARNING: Beware of things that are fun to argue — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Science has inexplicably failed to come up with a precise definition of "hipster", but from my limited understanding a hipster is a person who deliberately uses unpopular, obsolete, or obscure styles and preferences in an attempt to be "cooler" than the mainstream. But why would being deliberately uncool be cooler than being cool?

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Posted: September 27th, 2010
at 3:23pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: myninjaplease,life,science,"ninja",et cetera,development

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