“Coffee Culture” is a
loose-knit group of people that
inhabit cafés. Starting in the 50s with the
beatniks, people have been gathering in coffee shops to discus all sorts of things from
foreign affairs to
politics,
law to
poetry and everything in between.
Coffee culture has grown from
beret sporting hipster
existentialists into a broad spectrum of people, a veritable
plethora of
cultural diversity; if you will. Now you generally find a cross section of “
hippies”, “
ravers”, “
punks”,
homeless kids,
college students,
chess players and even some older folks looking for something more
socially stimulating than being plastered to 40 feet of polished wood beside four or five
reflexively impaired,
manic depressive,
alcoholic,
bar flies.
Some have considered Coffee Culture a small revival of
the age of philosophy. Granted, many patrons of
coffee shops are
morons beyond redemption. But the over-all average I.Q. is generally a tad
higher than normal. ;)