Situationists have been perverted

Modern situationists are the following:

1) artists who cant make art
2) hipsters, or, see 1)

Situationists used to be really interesting. That video is proof. They were fed up with the society of spectacle and decided to rebel and become some of the first modern anarchists.

Now we have liberal art students who are "fed up" with conventional art, and instead differentiate themselves as completely different, new, without borders and, most importantly, unconcerned with what people think.

The problem with that is... you cannot define yourself by saying "I am not this". You cant say "I am Graham, I am the opposite of Jack Layton". It doesn't work. You need to understand who your are first, and then make your art. Superficial art is done, you can't get away with it anymore, and anyone who thinks they can either aren't artists, or they're lucky enough to have the skills to do graphic design work. Graphic design is the real evolution of the situationist international movement; it's become a way to express other peoples ideas through a filter. Since the filter is your own mind, you can distort, pervert, alter or simply express someones ideas. Graphic designers are rigidly defined but at the same time, expressing a form of anarchical thought. Anyways.

So should we keep the Situationist International ideas in the mainstream? Are they already? Yes, yes. We need to have skepticism, we need bohemians, and punk rock has become so mainstream these days that even bands like Against me!, famous for songs like "i'm an anarchist, baby" are writing love balads to party girls. So be an anarchist and leave me alone, because I'm a filthy liberal and I don't give a fuck. I'm a situationist.

Note: Situationists International did not approve of the words "situationism" or "situationist" when used as a descriptor and not as a proper name, and infact consider the terms "anti-situationist"

So ya, they're hipsters. And thanks for the video Marc, that was probably the only video someone's recommended to me that I've actually watched and been genuinely interested in.