Friday, April 25, 2014

Hipsters are mediocre artists at best

Here are some blatant opinions of mine without any backing or definitions:

Hipsters and folks with hipster-like personalities are mediocre artists at best because their judgmental attitude inhibits them from perceiving their reality in an artistic and creative way.

People are driven to become hipsters because they lack passion or talent for pursuing a more interesting life, including art.

Hipsters, however, have the ability discern good art from bad art just like anyone else but often times are misdirected into thinking bad art is good solely because others shy away from it.

When hipsters pursue art, it is often half-assed.

When hipsters pursue art, their methodology is often iterative reduction: erase it until it looks good.  This makes sense because hipsters are usually just science-minded people with no motivation for pursuing science and no talent for innovating things.

Good artists are passionate about their art.  The passionate but bad artists end up becoming good artists after a while.

I will not try to justify these opinions with experience or logic.  Take these opinions however you want and see if your experiences and logic agree or disagree with them.  Note that I haven't even defined what a hipster is.  Maybe its just a term for a subset of people I despise.

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