According to The Red-Headed Menace, "hipsterism is the bastard child of transcendentalism and existentialism."*
*He made sort of a cogent argument for this position, but I was too bemused by the fact that he was trying to determine the philosophical antecedents of hipsterism in the first place to listen closely.
I'll have to ask him to explain that one when I come home ;)
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