Archive for October, 2008

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Almost done with the thesis. One week to go.

Here’s a great article about how today’s counterculture no longer challenges but instead revels in the nonsubstance of mainstream society and economy. Read it.

Please Listen

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

So I’m in the final stretches of the thesis. I’ll be done in 2 weeks and will begin posting more regularly after that.

For now, pleas listen to this. It’s a recent episode of “This American Life” that explains just how dire our current financial meltdown is and why the bailout, as it stands, won’t solve the problem.