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Good to see David Brooks still writing columns about random words he just learned.
Probably the last guy you want explaining cool to you is David Brooks. |
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From the article: "If you grew up in the 20th century, there’s a decent chance you wanted to be like Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Humphrey Bogart, Albert Camus, Audrey Hepburn, James Dean or Jimi Hendrix. In their own ways, these people defined cool."
I grew up in the 20th century and never wanted to be like any of these. If he wrote, "If you grew up in the fifties or sixties and aspired to be an existentialist philosopher, jazz or rock musician, or actor, there's a decent chance, etc." his statement would be a little more accurate. It had been years since I read David Brooks's column, and judging from this article, if I never read another one I'm not going to be missing much.
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I thought the 'cool' piece was OK--certainly the point about consumerism is true. I was reading a piece about Bob Marley--his estate is now the 6th largest dead guy merchandise empire--and that made me very sad...
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I see all forms of thoughts and ideas as currency. Their denominations will of course vary based on how I think I value them from my own thought process but in whatever myriad way I can get at those ideas, I get richer in the process because those inputs improve my own mosaic. I am not defending David Brooks. I am saying use him and any others you can find to help you see a bigger world. |
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I wish he could extend his logic and reach the place where we could talk about the increase in cheap morality. |
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I generally like the articles.. just saying he comes across as kind of nerdy.. the opposite of the american idea of cool.
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The article was pretty decent for David Brooks but I still feel compelled to post this .gif:
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Why should cool be restricted to kids?
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If you have to have cool explained to you, you are not cool. If you have to explain cool to someone, you are not cool.
Essentially, it's like Fight Club. The first rule of cool is don't talk about cool.
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Are you saying you are cool?
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1. Real coolness is a lot like a good joke. You can dissect it, but to do that you have to kill it.
2. Coolness is not like Wokeness at all, because the former is primarily an aesthetic sensibility while the latter is political awareness. 3. The level of discourse that David Brooks operates on is pretty high, but if we accept him as a trader in the currency of ideas, then it is also a legit position to consistently refuse his wares on grounds of inferior quality. Yes, "he makes you think," but if what he makes you think 99.9% of the time is "this guy is wrong, and kind of lazy" then there is always other stuff to read. 4. I was listening to Erykah Badu long before David Brooks was aware of her, and that makes me cooler and woker than him.
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Because he is, he's not allowed to say.
Wrong NYT columnist. That's Thomas Friedman.
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I talked (or, rather typed) about cool.
Therefore, according to the rules, no, I am not cool.
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