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Generation Sell, New York Times opinion piece
"Ever since I moved three years ago to Portland, Ore., that hotbed of all things hipster, I’ve been trying to get a handle on today’s youth culture. The style is easy enough to describe — the skinny pants, the retro hats, the wall-to-wall tattoos. But style is superficial. The question is, what’s underneath? What idea of life? What stance with respect to the world?".
Read the full piece by William Deresiewicz at the New York Times site here. Illustration below by Laurie Rollitt.

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