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On an excursion to downtown L.A., we came across this hipster outside a coffee house, reading Nausea<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was like seeing a panda in its own habitat, only better.\u00a0 I know it looks posed, but I swear to god he is real!<\/p>\n Downtown Los Angeles has a burgeoning ‘arts district’, i.e. a run-down industrial neighborhood crammed with organic cafes and tiny shops selling vintage Americana. Young people wander around looking drab and gender-challenged. There’s a lot of third-wave coffee and it is delicious.<\/p>\n While admiring my photo of the hipster this evening, I realized that it might be more accurate to call him a millennial.<\/p>\n I think there’s a real difference but I’m still working it out.<\/p>\n Hipsters like to have fun, for one thing, but millennials are sourpusses.<\/p>\n Millennials don’t want to acquire furniture or children, and they all work in tech or spend all their time on Instagram.<\/p>\n They are married to their iPhones and Androids and they seem to enjoy irony without actually having a sense of humor. They reject traditional politics but they hate Israel.<\/p>\n According to one pundit, they have ruined 47 institutions and industries<\/a>. They don’t use napkins or eat cereal.<\/p>\n God, who needs them, right?<\/p>\n Reading an essay<\/a> about\u00a0 them tonight, I had to learn a new word: Precarity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Precarity is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Apparently, we should think of millennials as a generation forced to live pared-down lives, victims of the broken economy rather than brats who disdain their parents’ furniture.<\/p>\n And likewise, they’ve been given a bad rap by “self-hating Boomers.”<\/p>\n Hahahaha!<\/p>\n At least millennials have crated an awful new jargon full of terms like ‘toxic-masculinity’ and ‘virtue-signalling’. If they keep up the word-coinage, I may learn to like them!<\/p>\n Or at least forgive them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On an excursion to downtown L.A., we came across this hipster outside a coffee house, reading Nausea. It was like seeing a panda in its own habitat, only better.\u00a0 I know it looks posed, but I swear to god he … Continue reading