The folks at Adbuster’s must be feeling pretty justified at this point. This has to be one of the ugliest manifestations of American consumerism to date. In the end, one man died, and a young woman had a miscarriage. This current economy appears to be producing a heightened level of savagery.
Ah, the hipster phenomenon. Adbusters sums it up rather succinctly:
“We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality.”
