so when you moving back to nelson? we dont need you here. you are the worst person.

You suck the sweat the lurks between my nut sack and ass hole. I hope you die.

Hey, people..Take your hate elsewhere.

Great writer.

Carry on.

Douglas,

You are such a hipster..btw your article on hipsterdom…is like that kid who would answer the teacher’s question in a wasteful roundabout way…why?…because he liked the way his voice sounded…hipsters are who they are…young and full of fun, somewhat shallow, mean spirited, kind, smart, ignorant, tall, short, fashion forward, posers, original, generic…oh wait did I just explain the different types of people that walk this earth…everyone is critic…yes..but why hate?

man i wish that asahi were a PBR… shucks… what does this mean…

article was ACE, keep it up.

someone cool again: When will you learn that Tecate and Asahi are the new cool beers to drink? My friends and I sip them while standing around in our meaningless neck-scarves and listening, ironically, to Nu Metal and, seriously, Lil Wheezy.

great article on hipsterdom. great vision in being a hipster but seeing its worthlessness. honest, courageous.

i see you read/hate vice magazine (i don’t know if its hipster but it sure is BORING)

Your hipster article was pretty lame. You look like a hipster to me. My grandpa looks like a hipster. Everyone is and isn’t a hipster. Who caaaaaares.

Douglas, nice one. That copy of Adbusters sat on my kitchen table unread till Jesse Pinero came over for coffee and indulged himself in a little read. Jesse, one who is quick to align with any well spoken/written individual who is equally opinionated against the masses of the mutts, insisted I read your article. I must say I have a difficult time staying focussed when it comes to reading magazines of any sort but I enjoyed your perspective and how it was presented, agreeing or not. The metropolis of Nelson doesn’t overexpose me to all that is hipster but my frequent visits to Van have immersed me so. I find that I feel a heightened sense of inner pride (as I feel so driven) in the presence of these individuals yet I am equally drawn to them as well; maybe it is the endless quest for social derelictism that intrigues me, that I know I could never incorporate into my own life as I would probably kill myself. Anyways, the main point that I want to make is you now make my list of success stories to come out of Nelson. Maybe your point and article was long-winded as one of your critics so duly noted but isn’t that the point?—it was done so creatively, artistically and originally—you now can fend the accusations of being a hipster yourself. Tom McTavish

It’s about time someone pointed out the obvious. Anyone that feels threated by your article is way too insecure with themselves. I suggest you turn your anger to the real enemy…I do believe that was the original intent of the article?!

There are two points that signify the death of a counter culture movement:
1. is the eventual forcefeeding of consumer goods targeting said counter culture.
2. the second wave - here come the kids: media bred and born. Whatever substance was to be had in the first place becomes formless, easily assimilated and quickly tossed.

The youth movement itself is turned on it’s head and twisted it back into itself, the original action is corrupted. The movement is successfully disarmed by artificiality -call it “cultural hegemony” Congratulations America (aka mainstream media), you’ve done it again.

Topical reads:
Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t be Jammed - Joseph Heath and Andrew Pottter
Do You Believe in Magic: Bringing the 60’s Back Home

Dearest Douglas,

Your writing is witty and smooth like honey. I enjoyed your piece in AdBusters(nice timing and usage of words!)I see your writing as more of an art form than something that can be taken as ‘truth’. Trust me, this is actually a compliment. Factual knowledge is boring and is always being disproved by quantum physics nowadays anyhow

In all fairness, I have to say I am moreso on the same page as this piece :

http://literaryaddict.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/beautiful-posers/

I love a good rant that leaves me smiling, an important debate but most importantly I need sanity and so long as we try to “get it” and make it into something that truly doesn’t exist, we perpetuate the insanity that really is the problem of the individidual’s mind–( that would include all of us). Change has no words. Silence is sometimes the best remedy and if you can’t just be happy with just being, then be misery and write eloquently while choosing to be ‘that in itself’.

Peace.

Just so you know… Her glasses are real. Sometimes beautiful people have poor vision. Brilliant insights though. Seriously. It moved me.

I love your writing! Would you like to work for me and the GOP? I’d love to have an inexperienced, yet well spoken hater on my team!

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Haddow, you’re such a try-hard! I read your hipster article; it stank. Read the whole thing in your mind, but in Grandpa Simpson’s voice.

You have ‘hipster’ written all over you. Your as much the real thing as Coca-Cola and Pammie’s boobs. Hangin’ out in trendy bars drinking Japanese beers! Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but one who does it shouldn’t have a go at others who hang out in slightly different trendy bars and drink different brands of expensive beer.

“prolific cultural magazines”… puhleeze! Bloody Adbusters… didn’t that kind of nauseating moralistic whining finish in the late 90’s? Not at bloody Adbusters it didn’t!

It’s nice to see that you only drink at “off the radar” restaurants. Are they off the health department’s radar too?

For all you Haddow hipster article haters - you are just like Republican wingnuts who recoil at seeing yourselves portrayed accurately by perceptive, thinking people.

The essay is fucking brilliant. Not David Foster Wallace brilliant (the ‘end of Western civilization’ thing is way too melodramatic a conclusion to draw from the mere homogenization of counterculture), but pretty damn close in terms of sheer sharpness of eye.

The only possible response from anyone who is NOT entirely guilty of the behaviors that Haddow describes is to laugh your ass off in knowing admiration of his astuteness, shaking your head as you think, ‘Damn, it’s true, my friends do that, and so do/did I’ etc.

Which means that if you’re a hater, you’re overcompensating to cover your fear of the truth about yourself.

In other words, calm the fuck down, re-read the essay, reflect quietly and honestly, and THEN write a comment when you’ve actually got something real to say.

Look at him, he’s trying to hide his identity as though the hipsters were going to place some kind of death wish on him a la the muslim world and Salmon Rushdie. Get over yourself man.

Jesus Christ! To those who are tearing down Haddow, consider “Hipster: The Dead End of the Western Civilization” merely as the contemporary truth by someone with the balls to speak it. Any time individual original thought popularizes with the reactionary masses, it becomes something entirely different…it becomes marketed. Thus, it must be destroyed through honesty and truth…my antonyms for the concept of MARKETING. And believe Haddow, Hipsterdom is a marketing force. So whether you consider yourself the purveyor of the archetypal outfit to be worn while riding “Fixie” through Downtown Oakland, or you simply enjoy banging borderline anorexic brunettes with laser fine pre-pubescent vaginas bought via trust funds at La Cita in Downtown LA, you know damn well that your swimming naked and diseased amidst nothing more than sex, drugs and violence. Contrary to the Philosophy of the Hipster that came before you, you have become trapped in perpetual decadence, adhering to this Media-Crazed Lie with the likeness of an adoring American Idol fan. The alternative is to vehemently denounce such nonsense and do what must be done to actually live a worthwhile life: stop considering yourself as the sole person that matters in your world. Otherwise your contributing to the rapidly expanding jib upon which we will destroy ourselves and our planet…yes you have arrived at and are paralyzed by self-importance: you are quantitatively an adult, yet qualitatively a child.

OH, Japan that’s the new cool place to love -everything Japan is cool these days isn’t it? a total hipster trait?? sure. haha. I mean I love visiting, but I wouldn’t claim it as cultural capitol because I do, nor would I claim it as a right to dismiss kids in my country. They’re just kids. Kids will always be trendy. And then they will always be non-conformist following the trend -which of course becomes trendy again. And there’s certainly a shit load of dump ass trendy kids in Japan too. I assume you’re trying to be an adult (a hip adult.) So then grow up and accept that everything you do can be equally criticized. Or, move to Japan, and pretend that you really “fit in” there and that you’re so far above the US Hipsters, only to realize shortly after that it’s the same everywhere. You’re the same cynical (hipster trait) person everywhere you go.