Modern Culture

Someone in the comments put "everything i hate about surry hills."
I think it would be more accurate to be "everything i hate about society"

I have a theory that music tends to define fashion and cultural groups and vice versa, through a series of fads that a minority of society is really jumping on at a period of time. Punk was obviously a huge one.
More recently, there's been "emo".

Right at the moment, "indie" and "alternative" and "hipster" are what's in.
There's the people in any cultural group that tend to jump on a bandwagon to such a degree, and are so desperate to appeal to that distinct dynamic that they almost become parodies of what the culture is, and become everything that the culture shouldn't be.

For emo, there were those that thought it was completely acceptable to wear eye makeup in public, along with chains everywhere, and the striped socks and what have you.

Now it's the hipster. They're the parody figure.
I content myself with the fact that all these fads fade out and are replaced. For the moment though, we put up with ridiculous hyperbola of all sorts, a yearning to be ever more alternative. It's stupid and I try not to conform to it, even if just in thought. All the hipsters will just fade back into looking like anyone else in time.

I try to think about things in a progressive manner, and in a way that is not confined to one cultural group. That means I would prefer not to get bogged down in one period, just because it appeals to me. I might appreciate elements of it, but not allow it to define me. I try to take a little bit out of everything.

It's just annoying that a lot of the things that alternative culture identifies with, I also tend to be interested in.