Caltrops - Peter Molyneux's The Movies





	[quote name="Fullofkittens"]Geeks spend the first 12-15 years of their lives being ostracized and mocked for being in violation of arbitrary (and sometimes mysterious) social guidelines. There, at the bottom of the public school caste system, they find likeminded individuals and eventually get some friends who share an interest in things like underground music and movies. And what do they do then? They develop their own ad hoc caste system, with its own arbitrary social guidelines. They just substitute "better taste" for "better clothes." While their social betters back in high school are all now perfectly normal, average adults with no particular thoughts about who is cooler than who, the hipsters are stuck in a perpetual state of arrested development where they obsess over wearing the right clothes, listening to the right music, watching the right movies, reading the right authors. Hipsters can't let it go. They think that adulthood is like high school. Not that everyone on this forum isn't guilty of this behavior to some degree, including myself. Two observations: -Musicians are the worst in the world about this thing. One of the reasons I cannot stand to participate in my local "rock scene" is that it's fucking cliquish! These people are in their 30s and they're worried about cliques! Fuck that! -It makes perfect sense that computer dorks (like the typical POE/OMM/Caltrops denizen) would be particularly sensitive to hipsterism, because in that infernal crucible of school, they identified with the hipsters right up until they became hipsters, and then suddenly their own people turned against them.[/quote]