8.  Irony as a lifestyle: from nothing fits to nothing should fit

Hipsters are postmodern to the core.  Postmodernism is the worldview that moves from the experience that nothing fits to the prescription that nothing should fit.  When one starts from the conviction that nothing should fit, then trying to identify even pockets of order in an otherwise absurd world or attempting to fit things together that in themselves are absurd is seen as a form of selling out.  Irony as a lifestyle is not only a recognition that nothing fits but also a lifestyle that must respond to any forms of order, be they philosophies, religions, institutions, organizations, or convictions with critique and disavowal.