For some it’s music, for others it’s the food they eat or don’t eat, for some it’s their taste in XYZ, for some it’s their morals.
For some it’s music, for others it’s the food they eat or don’t eat, for some it’s their taste in XYZ, for some it’s their morals.
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Why is enthusiasm for something a bad thing?
Find what gives you joy and do it.
For my wife it is cooking and buying waaaay too many plants at the plant store.
For me, it is cooking and playing RPGs around a big table with my friends.
yeah, folks become set in their ways as they age but you don’t have to. I try to stay open to new experiences. they’re available if you pay attention.
I guess the negative connotation is people who are very opinionated while being merely consumers.
Being interested and enthusiastic about stuff is cool, might trigger insecure about their own lack of depth or diversity in their tastes, but it’s perfectly good and cool. Being all about the latest thing like it makes you all that or condescending about things other people might not be aware of or understand is lame.
People who are active participants, that’s just shop talk. When you play shows you have opinions about bands and venues you’ve had experience with and that’s notmal but alienating to people who aren’t involved.
Never really thought about labeling anyone a hipster. “Do your thing”
Why is that bad? I actually did call a friend a hipster once, and it kind of offended him, but I meant (and I told him) most people who get called hipsters are faking this, exactly. A it’s ok, it’s actually good to be that good, interested, engaged in something that it gets kind of weird. That’s how you find your people.
Although, I’d make an exception for morals. That’s probably where this could get someone in trouble. If your morals and ethics never change AT ALL, you are probably not receiving feedback from where’s your moral compass tell you that should come from.
Some time last decade my friend said “You know, most things that are popular, it’s because they’re good. Most people aren’t stupid, they know good things when they see them. I don’t care if I’m basic by liking things other people like, too.”
Maybe the hipster attitude of “ugh, it’s over now, everyone is doing it” while also being “not basic” in a very prescribed way isn’t a cultural thing anymore.
It changed my internal attitude, though, that it’s nasty to sneer at people for liking things that are popular.
Ironically now I have niche/minority tastes but absolutely no one who doesn’t share them thinks that’s cool and I don’t care and am still not cool.
Cool is always the razor edge of conformity and innovation— too conformist and you’re boring and a square, too innovative and you’re a weirdo.