I. Summary
In recent years, we have seen an increase in the people who adopt the hipster culture. The hipster culture is defined as rejecting anything and everything mainstream (Omar 2016). Many hipsters are known for listening to alternative indie music, shopping at thrift stores, being an active liberal protestor, etc. (Weeks 2011). Novelist Hal Niedzviecki realized that similar non-conformist activities and ideals that he himself believed in or partook in after some time became accepted and therefore became the norm. His non-conforming acts were now symbols of conformity. The same phenomena has happened with hipster culture; once it was known as the opposition of popular culture and now it is the central essence of popular culture (Weeks 2011).
II. Case Selection
The hipster is definitely the new non-conformist. As I read Niedzviecki, it reminded me of hipster culture. Hipsters are supposed to be against many ideals that are popularized, but I particularly remember in …show more content…
People trying to imitate a sort of specialness they see in others to try to be unique themselves actual does the opposite and is a type of this “new conformity”. Everyday people find new interesting activities to do such as back yard wrestling or Elvis impersonations to make their own life unique, but they are “using the precepts of mass culture to reshape his own life”(2006). People continue to always try to be more than one’s self, so they will not be ignored by society. Many ordinary roles in society that were once glorified are no longer because they are seen as the norm and people today want to be more special . Niedzviecki gives many examples throughout the book on how people pursuing individuality has become the new
In recent years, we have seen an increase in the people who adopt the hipster culture. The hipster culture is defined as rejecting anything and everything mainstream (Omar 2016). Many hipsters are known for listening to alternative indie music, shopping at thrift stores, being an active liberal protestor, etc. (Weeks 2011). Novelist Hal Niedzviecki realized that similar non-conformist activities and ideals that he himself believed in or partook in after some time became accepted and therefore became the norm. His non-conforming acts were now symbols of conformity. The same phenomena has happened with hipster culture; once it was known as the opposition of popular culture and now it is the central essence of popular culture (Weeks 2011).
II. Case Selection
The hipster is definitely the new non-conformist. As I read Niedzviecki, it reminded me of hipster culture. Hipsters are supposed to be against many ideals that are popularized, but I particularly remember in …show more content…
People trying to imitate a sort of specialness they see in others to try to be unique themselves actual does the opposite and is a type of this “new conformity”. Everyday people find new interesting activities to do such as back yard wrestling or Elvis impersonations to make their own life unique, but they are “using the precepts of mass culture to reshape his own life”(2006). People continue to always try to be more than one’s self, so they will not be ignored by society. Many ordinary roles in society that were once glorified are no longer because they are seen as the norm and people today want to be more special . Niedzviecki gives many examples throughout the book on how people pursuing individuality has become the new