Hipster-To-Hippie Diagram (A Bit of Fun To End Chaotic Market Week)

This week has been quite gut wrenching in the markets, so it’s time for a bit of fun. This awesome diagram originated on San Francisco blog TheBoldItalic along with a good piece on the demise of Hippie Hill—which is the meadow and accompanying hill as you enter Golden Gate Park off Haight Street. It’s a hilarious statement on the identity crisis of young adults.

As for me, I’ve had my more hipster days but now if I self-apply any label, it’s working dad. Even if there are days when I still feel cool, I would never want to be known as a hipster because like Dr. Evil said to Austin Powers: “There’s nothing more pathetic than an aging hipster.” And so on the weekends I prefer to take my kid to Golden Gate Park to watch him run around and join in the drum circle at the base of hippie hill. I’ve even bought him a few drums. Only now that I’m seeing this picture, I fear for what I may be doing to him. But I’ll roll with it because it’s either the drum circle or subjecting him to the market carnage. And I think we’re all a bit better off knowing that there are people out there keeping the beat for us working dads … and moms, to whom I wish you all the happiest of Mother’s Days.