on hipsters and anarchists, again.

So I was thinking some more about this and the thing is:

Do you remember when chumbawumba released that ridiculous song 'tubthumping'? Of course you do! So I was watching the View one morning, its the show with a bunch of ladies sitting around talking about Tom Cruise, and Chumbawumba was performing on the view and they sang that song, except instead of the chorus they said, 'Free Mumia Abu Jamaal'. See Chumbawumba was trying to inflitrate hipsters! That's what they were trying to do. It failed miserably. It was so totally pathetic. Watch Timebomb! It's so great


So anyway - what they did was they tried to make themselves even more palatable and hip. They stopped being crazy, or wild or live vital anarchists, in order to bring Anarchism to the View. Someone asked them what anarchism was on the show and they politely explained it, but at that moment they ceased to be relevant because they ceased to be anarchist. You can like allow the legions to love you, but once you cross some line of dumbing yourself down to gain acceptance their scorn will burn.

I walk a lot of lines. Often unsuccessfully, but I know that everybody smells an unpracticed impostor a mile away. Hipsters crave our legitimacy and our secrets. They don't crave a bunch of has-beens trying to rekindle a lost childhood in their playground. In order to make revolution palatable it needs to be glamorous and sexy. Cool kids know the difference. They smell your weakness and your posturing. They don't like it.

Maybe you don't care and you are tired and you want to rest with your louis vuitton shades you claim to have dumpstered. That's cool. Lots of anarchists go to die among the hipsters. It's easy there. It's so fucking easy to be a hipster having navigated our terrain. It's easy but it's boring; if that's where life's brought you I understand. Just man up and own it dude.