Heh... the way Newsom acts in that video surprised me... she conversely struck me as very intelligent and grounded in her recent pitchfork interview. The space cadet thing in the clip is annoying... but I personally don't mind all hippies that much, the whole snarky, jaded, passionless, hipster stance can be just as bad IMO.
I'd agree with the undisputed truth and admit that I can find a bit of quirkiness in women attractive. I don't find anything wrong with being whimsical, but her act in that video is so contrived. But yeah, I'd still hit it.
As far as complaining about rich kids and art.... most of the roots of classic art, culture, science, philosophy, etc were the result of the ancient Greeks and elite citizens of other empires/dynasties actually being rich enough to have the time and collective cultural resources to develop them. It wasn't till the modern era that the working class really had any part in art and cultural discourse (thank god though) other than tribal and folk art.
And finally, lets be honest, we're a bunch of pretentious (to some types), philosopher name-dropping, culture-vulture uber-hipsters of the highest order... even if we do have the proper, politically-correct social conditioning to make us (secretly) ashamed in our awareness of it. :slanted: Might as well embrace it I guess...?
I'd agree with the undisputed truth and admit that I can find a bit of quirkiness in women attractive. I don't find anything wrong with being whimsical, but her act in that video is so contrived. But yeah, I'd still hit it.
As far as complaining about rich kids and art.... most of the roots of classic art, culture, science, philosophy, etc were the result of the ancient Greeks and elite citizens of other empires/dynasties actually being rich enough to have the time and collective cultural resources to develop them. It wasn't till the modern era that the working class really had any part in art and cultural discourse (thank god though) other than tribal and folk art.
And finally, lets be honest, we're a bunch of pretentious (to some types), philosopher name-dropping, culture-vulture uber-hipsters of the highest order... even if we do have the proper, politically-correct social conditioning to make us (secretly) ashamed in our awareness of it. :slanted: Might as well embrace it I guess...?
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); but I was kind of hinting that I actually would rather be seen as educated and "pretentious" than falsely try to posture myself as some working class hero (although I doubt any of us would be that full of shit). Of course there is the other extreme you described, someone going out of their way to be seen reading the right books at the right coffee shop. I was just noting the irony in hipster or intellectual self hatred via projecting onto more extreme cases than ourselves. By all means, I don't want this place to get any less "pretentious", that's why I'm here and not posting snarky insults in a Vice magazine website comments box or something.