In my last post I mentioned that there are no hipster colonies in Brockton. The reader of this blog may ask what constitutes a hipster colony. In my delusional understanding, a hipster colony is a neighborhood or community of pretentious pseudo-adults that are not natives to the urban centers where they have settled. They stand out based on behavior and ignorance to their surroundings in regards to the realities of crime, culture, and environment. The hipster, believing that they live in a society without class, violence, and racism, will leave their doors unlocked, go out all hours at night as they at home amid crackheads, gang-bangers and overeager cops, and instruct their neighbors to improve the community. These colonies exist in places like New Orleans, see Treme or the Wire, for Baltimore. David Simon's shows are a perfect reference here, think about it as is the Steve Zahn character in Treme. Other places such as these exist in most American cities.
When urban crimes happen to these colonists, they always seem amazed that these things can happen in this day and age and plead ignorance. There is no explanation beyond stupidity or arrogance. The world is not how you envision it, it is how it is and has been...hard. Hipsters do not think about these things, especially with Obama in office, he cured all social problems with his shatneresque diction.
Thankfully Brockton is not attractive to hipsters, who are busy turning once hard neighborhoods in Brooklyn into safe places deviod of their culture for one that values specialness, irony, plaid, and holden caulfield.
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