Monday, January 4, 2010

HW 30 How does cool relate to our attempt to live in relation to this emptiness?

Everybody has moments of feeling empty lonely or just overall pissed. Weather it be the nerd in the back of the class or the jock who gets all the girls, knowbody is truly happy and content all the time; and anybody who says they are is the most insecure lonely bastard of the bunch. Cool directly relates to our feeling of emptiness because cool has been defined as the perfect element. In other words cool takes on more then just being poular or keeping up with the times its about being confident and seeming that in no way are you lonely or brought down, but always seeming human at the same time.
Something else to consider is what are the root causes of our emptiness. I would argue that cool is one of the main problems. Because we give ourselves these imposible goals of becoming perfect happy people who read a script and do everything by the book even if its called being a rebel. I think that we either conciously or sub-consciously know that these goals are impossible to reach but that clime towards the top of the peakless mountain is one that brings on emptiness and clouds are vision of reality. But on the other hand, who the fuck needs reality? My best geuss at total reality would be a constant reminder that your life doesnt matter, there aren't any real rewards and we die and knowbody gives a shit. So my arguement is that cool is just a name we've given to our attempts at not being empty even though in one way or another we've been filling the role of "cool" forever. Furthermore if we didn't have that role not only would we be empty we'd be barbaric. Because the realist things in our lives are the most tragic. Or thats at least how we've been raised to think of it.
In conclusion my main point is the connection between emptiness and cool is very strong. Because in a lot of ways cool is our attemt to hide reality. Create obstacles chalenges, things that aren't important as far as nature is concerned but important to us because our complex brains can function in a positive way.

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