"We are forced to fixate on certain social roles in order to survive. Worker, housewife, professional, student, citizen, all of the roles are but masks, donned and rarely removed. 

We must remain positive while wearing these masks, ignoring the power and sovereignty behind it. This is the masked nothing, but underneath the mask is the pure potential of every subjectivity. To catch a glimpse of one's pure potential most often causes either fear or destructive elation. On one end, the fear invoked by one's own freedom makes people cling every more tightly to their masks. This produces the Hipster type, the devotee of nothingness, the champion of the mask.

Hipsters are neutralized beings, forever terrified of what they could do, might do, and will never do. The Hipster offers herself to the world as a bearable form of life."