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Which is to say that we all tend to subscribe to certain ways of behaving— to consider them normal and not-an-act— and look at everything else as false, cramped, and artificial. The assumption is that everyone else is going to absurd lengths to seem a certain way, whereas you and the people you understand are just being yourselves. There’s surely no better example of this habit than the word “hipster,” a pejorative people lob at anyone who’s even slightly more interested in current trends than they are. That person must be doing it on purpose, to seem cool and superior, right? Which is possibly how you look to someone slightly less interested in current trends than you are— but you’re normal, and not trying too hard at all.
— Nitsuh Abebe’s ‘Why We Fight’ columns are by far the best thing on Pitchfork. This one about identity in music and music-fandom is a typically thought-provoking read.
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