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posted Saturday, 8 October 2005
Someone left me a comment once and it said "all you do is try to make yourself look cool." And I thought, "No I don't," because I don't. Because everything I have written here has aimed for true, not cool, because being cool serves no one. Being cool (in the trendy sense the charge implies, not in the actual "that person is so freakin' cool" sense that happens in real life with truly interesting people) usually means that you have flattened yourself down to two or three traits that fits into a prefab stereotype and are clinging for dear life to those definitions of yourself. Spiked hair = antiestablishment = punk rock. Pointy shoes = dj gig = hipster. 200 friendsters = nothing. Nothing at all.
People are more complex than that, and that is why they are awesome. They are full of contradictions, likes and dislikes that don't add up to a perfect rabble rouser or record geek. The pursuit of cool means the pursuit of fitting yourself into an idea of what you should be instead of pursuing the things you genuinely enjoy.
There is no truth in cool.
People are more complex than that, and that is why they are awesome. They are full of contradictions, likes and dislikes that don't add up to a perfect rabble rouser or record geek. The pursuit of cool means the pursuit of fitting yourself into an idea of what you should be instead of pursuing the things you genuinely enjoy.
There is no truth in cool.