Hipsters drink Coke and wear 10 gallon hats. Or they will, at some point. My efforts to define and classify the elements of Hipsterism began after a encounter with an acquaintance in which he offered me a swig from the ball-jar he was using as a water bottle. False, it began when I noticed the frequency of my friends buying animal t-shirts from Value Village.
Though my knowledge of eastern wisdom comes primarily from what I read in "The Tao of Pooh", I believe that Lao-tse, the Chinese philosopher, was the world's first hipster. "Those who know the way, do not speak it. Those who speak the way do not know it." Such is the Taoist proverb and the ultimate challenge with defining what makes a hipster.
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