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Subject: What is cool?

Author:
T. Linehan

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Date Posted: 13:43:23 03/23/02 Sat

I love the "kingdom" discussion- reminds me of my fav. book in the last couple of years, "Divine Conspiracy" by Willard. I am sure many of you are familiar with it.
But I am absolutely fascintated by this idea of "coolguys" as presented by Adam. I never thought of the name of our group as more than a tongue in cheek salute to our non-nerdiness (for lack of a better word.) Coolguys was and still is exclusive by nature- and even our exclusivity was an intentional irony, I think. But we recognized in one another a common element: coolness. And yet look at the diversity of coolguys. Some in the group were known campus-wide. Myself and a few others, probably less so. A couple of coolguys come to mind as great athletes. But not all. Some bookish and of a philosophical bent. But not all. And yet there is an obvious common element; a prerequisite for membership, really. Coolness. But I'm still no closer to knowing what cool is. I used to jokingly define cool as anything that james dean would do. But coolguys refuse to let the world define our coolness. I think we'd all agree (as manifested in our discussion of the kingdom)that our coolness is not derived from worldliness. From what I'm hearing on the message board, I think genuineness and sincerity are a large part of coolness. Phony is anti-cool. (think Holden Caulfield)And yet mere "sincere guys" we are not. There is a lot more to cool than authenticity. Help me out here guys, my gut tells me we've touched on something important here.

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