In the course of the last month, I have realized a common recurring saying amongst nearly all groups of people that I know. "That's cool." Simple, short, to the point, but impossible to justify. You see, cool is not that easy to pinpoint. In fact, saying that something is "cool" in that manner is an empty statement. With nothing else to frame it, you are saying that somebody likes what you just said. Cool is just what somebody likes, simply put. However, humans feel the need to be liked by as many people as possible and therefore feel the need to be cool. If more people could set aside their need to be liked and simply were then the need to be cool would start to crack and maybe even crumble.
Point 1. What does it matter if they like you?
-Independence and dependability
-Elections?
Point 2. Is it good to be cool?
-Recommendations
-Resume's
-Elections again?
Point 3. Can you even control your own cool?
-Posers
-Unexpected perceptions
-Gossip
Henry,
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like the version of Manley's lesson I heard. How could we drop the cool thing? What would enable us to do that? Isn't the cool thing a real thing that real humans do? Isn't not trying for social acceptance more fake than trying for it?