anarchists can't infiltrate hipsters

Hipsters want to be anarchists, but they lack the sophistication and intelligence. They aren't at the apex of social culture, they're a couple steps down, right near artists. Anarchists are at the top. They've always been at the top, even before there was anarchism. It's because we are funnier, more perceptive and understand social and political dynamics better.

They've always appropriated our fashion, our culture, our neighborhoods.* They are keenly aware that we exist, and they think we are awesome. You my sucker friend put on that white belt last year to try to become them, but they've noticed your friends sporting straggly beards and flannel. The hipster isn't at Union Pool in Wiliamsburg listening to you DJ what you think he likes. He's trying to buy drinks from Sam at the Tip Top in Bed Stuy.

You quit anarchism and relevancy late in 2009, but anarchism didn't quit being relevant.

What's a hipster now? Ray LaHood and his bike culture that we made popular? Does he dumpster now that we made that popular? You've thrown away what you are to try to get into him, but he's moved past you trying to get to where you would have been. Pseudo primitivist organic ad locally sourced meats at The Farm?

"Hipsterism is the submission of culture to commodification, right down to its rebellious tendencies and internal customs. Hipsters don't live in squats. They sell each other "artisanal" things."

-- mobunited

To be a hipster is to be a poser in a constant state of cultural crisis. To be an anarchist is to be in control of your life.

Are you really just appropriating their fashion?

* We in turn appropriate those things from black people, which I would address more fully if this wasn't a vampire blog and an already annoyingly long post about something not relevant to vampirism, except perhaps that vampires would be unattracted to me while I wrote something so boring.