This article serves as a pretty clear cut example of the pejorative "hipsterism". She's essentially rejecting the very culture she identified with previously solely because of its perceived higher degree of popularity in metro areas.
She also has a wrong headed idea about metropolitan areas in general and about San Francisco specifically. These are not cities that have inherently normalized counter-culture, raising a generation of conformist non-conformists. They are centers of migration. The overwhelming majority of the population is not from San Francisco or even from California.
The reason you don't see many counter culture types amongst adults in the suburbs is because, by the very nature of conformity, it's difficult to get a job and making a living as an outsider. So as you grow up, you either conform or you move somewhere where there are like minded individuals. San Francisco didn't create counter culture...the counter culture moved there and created San Francisco.
She didn't move to S.F. and find out city kids are posers. She moved there and found 1,000's who moved there from the suburbs just like her. Confronted with the cognitive dissonance of discovering that she's not a unique snowflake and, in her own way, is just as conformist as "mainstream", she decided to declare herself "authentic" and every one else a poser.
She was counter culture _before_ it was cool. For real.
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I've seen this sort of reaction so many times it deserves its own logical fallacy.
The True Scotsman Fallacy.
The True Scotsman Fallacy is the assertion that oneself, or one's inner group, is the only true representation of a particular culture, viewpoint, or interest group. All other groups are rejected for various, seemingly arbitrarily selected, criteria.
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This article serves as a pretty clear cut example of the pejorative "hipsterism". She's essentially rejecting the very culture she identified with previously solely because of its perceived higher degree of popularity in metro areas.
She also has a wrong headed idea about metropolitan areas in general and about San Francisco specifically. These are not cities that have inherently normalized counter-culture, raising a generation of conformist non-conformists. They are centers of migration. The overwhelming majority of the population is not from San Francisco or even from California.
The reason you don't see many counter culture types amongst adults in the suburbs is because, by the very nature of conformity, it's difficult to get a job and making a living as an outsider. So as you grow up, you either conform or you move somewhere where there are like minded individuals. San Francisco didn't create counter culture...the counter culture moved there and created San Francisco.
She didn't move to S.F. and find out city kids are posers. She moved there and found 1,000's who moved there from the suburbs just like her. Confronted with the cognitive dissonance of discovering that she's not a unique snowflake and, in her own way, is just as conformist as "mainstream", she decided to declare herself "authentic" and every one else a poser.
She was counter culture _before_ it was cool. For real.
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I've seen this sort of reaction so many times it deserves its own logical fallacy.
The True Scotsman Fallacy.
The True Scotsman Fallacy is the assertion that oneself, or one's inner group, is the only true representation of a particular culture, viewpoint, or interest group. All other groups are rejected for various, seemingly arbitrarily selected, criteria.
May I suggest the People's Front of Judea fallacy?
Splitters!