We've been mocking hipsters for years now, but eventually someone will ask why we're making fun of these people in the first place. Can't we just ignore them and look at hipsterism as just another clothing trend? Let me explain to you why hipsterism is a bad sign for society at large.

Every time our civilization has faced its periodic crisis, most notably after the First and Second World War, Western culture has spawned absurdism as a response to the decay and horror surrounding it. Louis-Ferdinand Céline experienced the First World War, found that humanity was way off track, and could do nothing else but desperately laugh at it all. After the Second World War, the West was first horrified, then high on progress, and now we're back to hipsterism again.

When we look at decay and danger, but don't have the guts to deal with our problems, we take a step back and laugh at ourselves for being cowards. We become self-ironic--we become hipsters. People who are hipsters...

• Watch great athletes suddenly lose the competition because of injury, and mockingly comment: "How about that!"
• Read about wars in distant countries in the newspapers, show it to their friends, and say: "Boy are we lucky we're not living in X country!"
• Get dumped by their girlfriends, then buy a shirt the next day that says "I'm single"
• Evade all important issues in life by saying: "I believe in progress."

Hipsterism is a sign of civilization exhaustion. Our society has reached the point where it faces so many problems it simply cannot do anything important about them, so it turns inward to mock its own situation with self-irony. That's nothing short of absurd, because self-irony is really the same as giving up. Corrupt is regularly mocking hipsters because they spread a negative attitude towards life at large, and only contribute to further civilian impotence. So we mock them, because exposing self-ironic losers will open up new paths to a better future.