Such values, which have resurfaced across time in America, have a contemporary resonance. For the dirtbag, hygiene is optional, dumbassery is frequent, and a gritty kind of enlightenment might just be tenable. It connotes a bemused nihilism and a commitment to living by one’s own rules. Because of these peripatetic associations, the label suggests not a mere sloven, but someone defecting from a situation they feel is going nowhere, whether that’s high-school geography class or society at large. The term has roots in the culture of mountain sports: It’s proudly claimed by those who forsake office jobs to live in their vans, eat ramen, do acid, and climb rocks. In FX/Hulu’s new series The Bear, the protagonist, Carmy, represents another version of the grubby archetype-a tattooed, greasily rakish kind of man who seems unstable yet wields a certain allure.ĭirtbag refers not just to an appearance and a lifestyle, but also to a certain worldview. He is alternately goofy and intimidating, with a love of heavy metal and a mullet one imagines smells of stale beer. A paragon of the form is Eddie Munson from Stranger Things: Repeating his senior year of high school, Eddie sells weed, leads the Dungeons and Dragons club, and strikes most of the townsfolk as a plausible Satanist. This summer, the “dirtbags” have taken over screens.
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