- Our ideas and representations of cool, change based on what the people in power believe is cool, people are collages of the people around them. They never loose the ideas of what used to be cool, they just build on it with more information from other sources.
Sharp Insights/Major Points:
- People are always looking for the next cool thing by looking at what their friends think are cool
- People are collages of the people around them
- Cool is all a way to save face, whether it be their own face, or the face of others.
- Anatomy Of an attitude
- How race affects cool
- Cool in gender
Evidence:
- We play genders, we are born with a sex
- Dating standards
- Tattoos are an initiation into a "tribe"
- FEED
- Matt Fried's assorted quotes
- The effect of "Cool" on the sane vs the insane mind.
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