Cool is not obeying society's mores, it is breaking society's mores.
Well not necessarily breaking them, but looking at them askance, mocking
them if you will. That's what I am talking about. I am not sure
exactly what you meant by social crap so i am going with something I
call cool, but I'm not sure if I can define it. Elvis Presley is cool;
Pat Boone is not. A sports car is cool; the family sedan is not.
Sarcasm is cool; good natured fun is not.
Customs vary across cultures, though I think you will find that they
have more in common than in differences, but I am going to claim that
cool is a constant, since it is the mocking of customs.
Again with the cannibals. Well I guess you just always go with them as
an example of people who are not like us everyday Americans, but as long
as we are speaking of them, and knowing nothing about them, I will say
that it's not necessarily cool for a cannibal to eat somebody. All
cannibals eat somebody, so it's just the normal thing to do, nothing
special about it. The cool cannibal would maybe wield his fork a little
differently, and I think he would probably mock eating people a
little. The cool person is a little different and he has that mocking
thing going. But that's not enough, coolness is in the eye of the
beholder, and the beholders have to think he's cool and why they find
one person cool and another not cool is a question I am going to dodge
for right now.
We descend from hunter gatherers. Studies of current day hunter
gatherers reveal that the young kids are kept close to their parents but
once they approach adolescence they move into the kids' group where
they remain for a few years until they become adults with families of
their own. See it's kind of like high school, I am going to put it at
roughly from fifth grade through high school, maybe college, it's the
age when your parents are not very important anymore, nor really are any
adults, what's mostly important is other kids.
And kids you know, they are not really part of society. They don't get
no respect. They are too young to have much experience at anything or
to know very much, and by their nature irresponsible, and frankly they
think the old tried and true ways are stodgy, and they tend to make fun
of them. They are cool. This is the age where cool is strongest as a
motivator, as the kids get older and mate and have kids and accept
responsibilities they will be more accepting of the stodgy old ways, but
cool will still be a force, more for some than for others.
Rules are supposed to be there for a reason,
spoken like a stodgy old man. Sez who? Well there is a reason for
everything, some clowns put it there maybe. You admit that it might be a
bad rule, but then it sounds like you are saying that it should be
obeyed until it is taken off the books, which sounds pretty stodgy.
I am not saying the tribe should pick the coolest guy for their leader,
the cool is just to get them rebellious so that they choose a leader who
treats them better than their current one. If everybody followed the
leader without a whimper the leader would take advantage of that and
take all the goods and wives for himself and that tribe would be weak
and would fall to another stronger tribe where the chief could be
deposed if the tribe didn't think he was a good leader. The genes of
the obedient tribe would whither and the genes of the rebellious tribe
would prosper and that's why we have them in our jeans today and why
coolness is a force among us.
Not that cool is necessarily a good thing. I do think Trump is bull
goose looney. Throwing the bums out is certainly a cool message.
Actually they all say that to some extent, as politicians have always
done. My man Bern is a little more specific about who the bums are.
Lyin' Ted seems to think they are godless atheists which makes us
godless atheists nervous, as well as those among us who are not but can
tell that Lyin' Ted thinks they are. Kindly Uncle Johnny, takes a
softer line to throwing the bums out, which frankly, is why he has only
won one state.
But there is something more to the cool of Trump than his throw the bums
out message, there is also the way he talks. He talks like a regular
person, well if that person is a big fucking asshole, but then there are
plenty of big fucking assholes among us. There are really not all that
many politicians. You can spot them right away. They don't talk like
us, they are like on a five second delay. When we shoot off our mouths
we shoot off our mouths and sometimes we are as surprised as our
listeners at what comes out. When a politician shoots off his mouth,
his words pass first through a little filter that smooths them out,
makes them a little less offensive, maybe like we do when we are on a
job interview.
But Trump doesn't have that five second delay, he's not a politician.
And who got us in the mess we are in today, (and we are always in some
kind of mess) politicians? So let's elect someone who is not like them,
let's elect somebody who is cool.
I'm not going to blame the media for the bathroom thing. The media
picks up on what people are saying and goes with that, and my ilk likes
to be on a crusade, and your ilk sees some threat everywhere they look.
Lyin' Ted is beating the drums on this because he thinks he can make
some hay on it, but so far it hasn't gotten much traction.
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