Ben Sidran - Don’t Cry For No Hipster

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  • How to Live Without Irony - NYTimes.com
    http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/?smid=fb-share

    He is an easy target for mockery. However, scoffing at the #hipster is only a diluted form of his own affliction. He is merely a symptom and the most extreme manifestation of ironic living. For many Americans born in the 1980s and 1990s — members of Generation Y, or Millennials — particularly middle-class Caucasians, irony is the primary mode with which daily life is dealt. One need only dwell in public space, virtual or concrete, to see how pervasive this phenomenon has become. Advertising, politics, fashion, television: almost every category of contemporary reality exhibits this will to irony.

    No attack can be set against it, as it has already conquered itself. The ironic frame functions as a shield against criticism. The same goes for ironic living. Irony is the most self-defensive mode, as it allows a person to dodge responsibility for his or her choices, aesthetic and otherwise. To live ironically is to hide in public. It is flagrantly indirect, a form of subterfuge, which means etymologically to “secretly flee” (subter + fuge).

    Ex. la #pub #antipub ; la #mode, la niche, seule refuge pour qui jouit du #capitalisme, le #critique peut-être mais le contemple surtout, d’où l’#ironie. Cf. #bobos (marrant : le subterfuge succède au prestidigitateur Houdini dans mon flux #coïncidence)

    “Wherever the real imposes itself, it tends to dissipate the fogs of irony.”

    PS 2 : dans les 5 minutes qui suivent j’entends « Don’t cry for no hipster » à la radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPwr7YHVRos

    il se passe un truc, trop de coïncidences, je commence à prendre peur / #paranoïa