This was cool. Being a cool guy myself I was able to recognise that. I also wrote a piece on cool a while back but I won’t link to it here as doing so would be uncool.
This is an excellent summation Neil, so much meat in it. (not the vegan variety I'd like to add). "For listeners, they needn't say much" (Red Scare) caught me particularly as I see so much bluster and so little action in the cultural sector these days from icons and otherwise. Let's return to the 'coolness' of the extraordinary and 'effortless' brilliance of musical meanderings as per Miles Davis please!
I'm never exuberant, and that's the authentic me, but lots of people I met over the years decided it was an affectation, a 'cool' veil I was holding up. Now I'd just tell them Aspergers IS cool, but I didn't then, because I didn't know. Which is also quite cool.
Justin EH Smith has rebranded his name a couple of times, recently, (he'll always be EH to me) and has a substack where he has just (today) announced he is going all paywall onlyfans style (I cannot fault him on this... but... I'll be shifting off the platform in the new year, somewhere-s.) I've been a fan since I discovered his Eurasian-steppe etymological fiction, what 5 years ago, and have learned much from him, the fiction is intersting because in the same substack post he says (along with write _your_ writing claims) most interactions are not with those story posts (however metafictional) but with more meta-writing about writing posts, ...and he also claims to be a Catholic now, but I have my doubts, I think it is more crotchetiness than Catholicism.
Oh Felix, being true is the coolest (I’m aware how not cool I am using ‘coolest’).
There is so uncool you become cool again and I think he missed this:)
Yes! It all comes down to authenticity at some level.
This was cool. Being a cool guy myself I was able to recognise that. I also wrote a piece on cool a while back but I won’t link to it here as doing so would be uncool.
Coolness, like conscience, comes at a cost.
Thank you. Link away!
Jeez, Feb 2020. Time flies:
https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-cool
This is an excellent summation Neil, so much meat in it. (not the vegan variety I'd like to add). "For listeners, they needn't say much" (Red Scare) caught me particularly as I see so much bluster and so little action in the cultural sector these days from icons and otherwise. Let's return to the 'coolness' of the extraordinary and 'effortless' brilliance of musical meanderings as per Miles Davis please!
Thank you!!! It means a lot coming from one of the most exuberant people I know.
I'm never exuberant, and that's the authentic me, but lots of people I met over the years decided it was an affectation, a 'cool' veil I was holding up. Now I'd just tell them Aspergers IS cool, but I didn't then, because I didn't know. Which is also quite cool.
Justin EH Smith has rebranded his name a couple of times, recently, (he'll always be EH to me) and has a substack where he has just (today) announced he is going all paywall onlyfans style (I cannot fault him on this... but... I'll be shifting off the platform in the new year, somewhere-s.) I've been a fan since I discovered his Eurasian-steppe etymological fiction, what 5 years ago, and have learned much from him, the fiction is intersting because in the same substack post he says (along with write _your_ writing claims) most interactions are not with those story posts (however metafictional) but with more meta-writing about writing posts, ...and he also claims to be a Catholic now, but I have my doubts, I think it is more crotchetiness than Catholicism.
https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/a-year-of-ordinary-time
Alas, he lost me a while back. I missed the name change.