Arthur wrote:
> NY Times Nov 17, 2012
>
> If irony is the ethos of our age - and it is - then the hipster is
> our archetype of ironic living.
>
> The hipster haunts every city street and university town.
> [snip]
> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/
I can't decide whether this is 21st Century Navel Gazing by the kind
of person who will only be happy when she has a regular psychiatrist,
a personal trainer and spirituality guru; or if this is really some
kind of problem in urban culture today.
But then, I'm old enough to be a year or two ahead of the boomer
cohort, way before Gen-X, and, in the pop vocabulary of generation
classification, my cohort is a small and little-memorialized one that
occurred in an interstix between the Beats and the Hippies:
Desperados. You won't likely find even a mention of us on Google
unless you know to include "Tom Parmenter" in your search. Maybe
Desperados were (are) still doing literary jokes and high-brow culture
instead of "inside jokes and pop culture references".
I've re-read the above twice to determine if I may have somehow
unintentionally committed an irony. I don't think so. But then,
"irony" is one of those words I have trouble with [1] in one way or
another.
- Mike
[1] Irony; ergodic; ontic [2]; neoliberal; proactive; meaning, inter alia.
[2] I keep thinking I should write the Canadian Lit book entitled
"Ontic, Eh?", dedicated to Aldous Huxley [3] but I don't know what
to put into it. May plagiarize the above referenced Times article
in toto? Have I committed an irony in thinking that?
[3] Author of "Antic Hay", q.v.
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