Monday, October 04, 2010

Why Geeks Hate Hipsters

Why Geeks Hate Hipsters: "Today, Joel Johnson of Gizmodo wrote an article. Maybe you've seen it. Probably you haven't. But he's clearly going through an identity crisis, trying to reconcile his self-described geekdom with his so very clear love of himself, and in doing so decides that geeks should be nicer to hipsters, which is to say, geeks should be nicer to Joel Johnson. I can sympathize with that. Yet I cannot allow him to pass off Hipster as some blameless enitity, hated simply for being, as that is not the case. Joel offers some advice: 'attack their arguments!'"