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Some festive fingering courtesy of Ms Luna Lee and her mighty gayageum:
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To you and yours, a very good one.
Or rather, the hippies are back and they are rebelling!
They are not so much rebelling as they are revolting.
. . .not everyone loves our modern lifestyle . . .
Meh.
Quite correctly, no one loves hipsters or anyone else fantasizing that The New Shiny Toy is a substitute for being an adult.
At some point, somewhere online, I read of someone complaining about the horrible new practice that people were doing that alienated them, made them lose track of time, they would get lost in obscure fantasies, the increasing occurrences were just horrible, and something must be done about it!!!!!
The specific complaint was sometime in the (1100s, 1300s, 1400s???) about the spread of that newfangled thing called reading.
Reading is perfectly fine. Using some recent and very useful tool is fine. Being a hipster and refusing to have a clue is the problem; A frequent gibe is that on Facebook, we’re not the customers, we’re the merchandise. Or to put it another way: If the service is free, you’re the product.
Hipsters are certainly revolting, but then they’re the ones described to when the article does totally screw up what is being referred to by claiming that “We” are . . .
No, we bloody well do nothing of the sort. A comment of mine a bit back, is that no, I do not merely have a cell phone, I own a cell phone, and I have a life.
Hipsters are the ones that claim that the cell phone, the narcisstick, the internet, are all required, that twitter must be considered a requirement that everyone take part in and therefore Must be subsidised, and who then kill themselves off that way; San Diego man ‘plummeted to his death while distracted by his phone’
The internet is an extremely useful tool . . . and will remain only a tool. Any attempt to claim Duh Internet to be a “lifestyle” is an example of failure, where the person remains responsible for the use of the tool . . . . .