That's what I get for signing him up for that philosophy class at the community college last summer.

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.