mASF post by "rp_5150"
posted on: mASF forum: Advanced Discussion, September 9, 2004On 9/17/04 7:43:00 PM, TylerDurden wrote:
>
>"In Hollywood they always talk
>about what the definition of
>cool is.
>To give it a real short
>definition, I say anybody that
>is courageous
>enough to authentically, in
>one respect or another, be
>themselves
>when that is not necessarily
>the normal modus operandi,
>that's
>beyond cool. A person like
>that is magnetic."
>
>To me, to be cool is to have
>an inner game» that is chilled
>out.
To many people, the "cool guy" makes, creates, knows, all
the in-jokes. This includes topical stuff on celebrities,
etc. So the guy who makes the comment "damn girl that's
j.lo!" is cool. (Hollywood does this to the Nth degree with
the "inside" scoop---the insider can leverage /anybody/ to
do what they want with the right information. Big business.)
By this measure I'm uncool. I didn't know who 'J.Lo' was
until a little while ago. (I dont keep up with mass media)
I still don't know who justin timberlake is.. tho I picked
up a cosmo and flipped through pics of him last week.
I think the quote above is hinting at the real objective:
to be "beyond cool". That is the valuable state.
That is where rules do not apply, where social convention
goes non-linear & into the stratosphere, where anything is
possible and any inkling of conformity is stripped away.
In this place, the only rules are the ones you set, and
others excitedly follow suit.
>-TD
I'm curious.. would you say it's important to
know what others think of you, or does that not
bother you much.
-- robert1
"When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the
way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious
secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun." (The Tao of Pooh)
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