quote:"'Cool' is a mid-level interpersonal dominance strategy based on contempt and used to impress and intimidate the weaker members of society without antagonising the strong."
in fact, if your midlevel strategy is cool enough, the really strong (CEOs of multinationals etc.), will hunt the cool factor down and attempt to market it to the rest of us poor snivveling intimidated members of society, until it becomes utterly uncool. meanwhile, you, the cool one, will have moved on to some other midlevel strategy, and probably one expropriated from Black culture (at least in the US).
(a question pops into my mind: does coolness function/work like Lacan's notion of the phallus?) |
