Hipster Paradox

We all know the paradox of hipsters and ice cream, now we have another paradox to ponder.

On North 4th street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn there is a building with shops for rent. This is nothing new. Williamsburg is like Mecca to hipsters. Hipsters are transient in nature and semi-nomadic. They would be more stationary but they keep getting kicked off other people's couches much to their chagrin. Anyway the property is renting out shops that will undoubtedly fit in with the Bedford Cheese shop (even non hipster hipster-curious types will enjoy their artisan cheeses) and the pretentious sounding Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers. The paradox is for the hipster is that building with available shops that will undoubtedly be filled by bohemian appropriated hipster junk is owned by capitalists. It is very possible that it is owned by people with ties to Brookfield Office Properties, the people who evicted the Occupy Wall Street protestors out of Zuccotti Park.

Here is the riddle that hipster will snark at but undoubtedly be perplexed by:

By opening a shop in the mecca of hipsterdom at Williamsburg in order to spread the values or lack thereof in hipster culture one would have to pay rent to a Republican or a Republican sympathizer. The paradox is this, hipster must spread hipster wares or there will be none left. It is an existential crisis. In order to spread the hipster culture one must inadvertently support a Republican. By opening a shop in Williamsburg a hipster is paying to finance a Republican presidential nominee. Is the survival of hipsterdom worth that?

Don't try to impinge on my logic with clever sophistry. Deal with it. When you open a hipster shop you support a Republican presidential nominee. Somewhere in Williamsburg, probably outside the Bedford Cheese shop, on his modified-customized bicycle, smoking a menthol cigarette and drinking a PBR, a hipster is shedding a revelatory tear.