What happened to "cool"?

[shockedcanadian]

Perhaps just seeing the videos and social media antics but what happened to people being "cool"?

The generations before me in the 50s, there was James Dean and being cool was wearing leather and nodding ones head, strong and silent type.

After them even the hippies counter-culture had an air of cool, celebrating music and easy love, smoking their cigarettes. If you were too amped up you would be square.

My generation didn't have just one particular staple definition of cool, perhaps the jocks and guys at the gym, we were starting to become uncool even then I suppose.

Being cool has always meant being in control, indifferent to little things, nonchalant, expressing a relaxed disposition.

Has the world become a constant array of flashing lights and Crazies? What in the hell happened to cool?

 

[Lockback]

From what I see of modern society, to be 'cool' , you have to be gay or trans, have lots of tats, a nose ring, purple hair and yell a lot.
I'll pass, thanks.

 

[Auld Phart]

Perhaps just seeing the videos and social media antics but what happened to people being "cool"?

The generations before me in the 50s, there was James Dean and being cool was wearing leather and nodding ones head, strong and silent type.

After them even the hippies counter-culture had an air of cool, celebrating music and easy love, smoking their cigarettes. If you were too amped up you would be square.

My generation didn't have just one particular staple definition of cool, perhaps the jocks and guys at the gym, we we starting to become uncool even then I suppose.

Being cool has always meant being in control, indifferent to little things, nonchalant, expressing a relaxed disposition.

Has the world become a constant array of flashing lights and Crazies? What in the hell happened to cool?

climate change

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Perhaps just seeing the videos and social media antics but what happened to people being "cool"?

The generations before me in the 50s, there was James Dean and being cool was wearing leather and nodding ones head, strong and silent type.

After them even the hippies counter-culture had an air of cool, celebrating music and easy love, smoking their cigarettes. If you were too amped up you would be square.

My generation didn't have just one particular staple definition of cool, perhaps the jocks and guys at the gym, we we starting to become uncool even then I suppose.

Being cool has always meant being in control, indifferent to little things, nonchalant, expressing a relaxed disposition.

Has the world become a constant array of flashing lights and Crazies? What in the hell happened to cool?

All the cool people die of drug overdoses~

 

[Lockback]

All the cool people die of drug overdoses~

Which means they really, really weren't cool at all. They were just stupid.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Which means they really, really weren't cool at all. They were just stupid.

Often stupid and cool correlate

 

[Darkwind]

I retired.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Which means they really, really weren't cool at all. They were just stupid.

Or young and dumb. Most men, or at least many men from my generation have at least one story where they almost died by misadventure. I swear I had an angel on my shoulder, I should have been dead multiple times starting at age six riding my Big Wheel around the block and across the street. Stupid, but the brain at that age is wired to explore and have no fear of death, the concept didn't exist. I do not even refer to cool as in being a heavy drinker or a stoner, I just refer to that classic laid back disposition and attitude. Live and let live etc. Think of Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. A man can be successful but still lad back. All I see is generations of rage and amped up people.

 

[Lockback]

Or young and dumb. Most men, or at least many men from my generation have at least oje story where they almost.died by misadventure. I swear I had an.angel.on my shoulder, I should have been dead multiple times starting at age six.riding my Big wheel around the block and across the street. Stupud but the brain at that age is explore and have no fear of death, the concept didn't exist. I do not eve refer to cool as in being a heavy drinker or a stoner, I just refer to that classic laid back disposition and attitude. Live and let live etc.

I was never tempted by drugs, luckily. I always thought only the dumb people used them.

 

[shockedcanadian]

I was never tempted by drugs, luckily. I always thought only the dumb people used them.

Yes, I was the same for the most part. I was not too judgemental but I did know some guys who apparently did powder though I never saw and I would.not.want.to be around it. Alcohol was my vice in university though. I have never been axdicted to anything which I literally could not stop cold turkey at.the drop of a hate, be it booze or chocolate.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yes, I was the same for the most part. I was not too judgemental but I did know some guys who apparently did powder though I never saw and I would.not.want.to be around it. Alcohol was my vice in university though. I have never been axdicted to anything which I literally could not stop cold turkey at.the drop of a hate, be it booze or chocolate.

 

[leftwinger]

A bad home life, a broken family, moved around a lot, in with bad kids, drugs in JHS, don't care if live or die, see no way possible any good future, no "permanent home" to go back to, angry, angry at parents, no girlfriends, no sports, peer pressure, drinking out of control, the media influence, one can become an abuser of everything from glue to MD2020 to morphine from very early age on into your 20s 30s easily. It can be tough for many.


**should I post this? Geez. Depressing. Imagine a young Black with drug addict single mother HOE in a CHI hi-rise. Hopeless much? It aint easy being a suburb kid if your family is stupid drunks and addicts either. Kids have it rough.

 

[petro]

Cool used to be bucking the system and current trends.

Now it's parrot the social narrative.