Hipsterhipster

   As humans we are born with certain amounts of suck. It's not a bug; there are no bugs-- only "features." It's a comforting notion, actually- the idea it's okay to make mistakes, and so you don't have to be afraid of screwing up (which fear, laser-eyed-statue-things-from-Never-Ending-Story-like, is very often the cause of screwups in the first place.) "Suck" being built in, having this paradigm, raises some questions, though. Such as-- why do we even want to pull ahead of everyone else anyway? Just to be ahead of them? We can help these people! We can do good in the lives of others...

   But then again... It's kind of presumptuous to think we can run their lives better than they can, right? Isn't it? Why else would we do anything? Right?

   And thus, stalking villainously from Stage Right, enters our Dilemma.

   I call it, "the problem of hipsterdom." Totally catchy name, ahoy. Disparaging something and saying it sold out when it gets cool, why is that? Wouldn't you want others to share in on your good fortune, knowing how awesome a certain band (or, gosh, Apple product, or something) is? I think it's a defensive mechanism of some sort. Fall back, fall back. You've got to separate yourself from the Great Unwashed somehow. (Great secret, though, which nobody ever discusses because, well, it's a secret: we are every bit as petty and messed up as they are... but we can't let them know that.)

   Defensive mechanism, right-- personal example here; It's like I think Nikola Tesla would be dirtied somehow if more people knew how awesome he was. Certain amounts of suck, again, but, totally irrational, I know. I-- I think... It's a basic part of humanity; here, taken so far apparently as to define its own sub slash counter culture. It's a sort of natural evolution, not that many would have been able to see it coming.