what is cool…

Dax, on Armchair, told this story.

His daughter was upset that she was at school and her friends were talking about K-Pop Demon Hunters and they knew all the band members but she only knew a few. She wasn’t “cool”. She came home and said “I don’t even know where to find this information!”

Dax then told her, he hasn’t been a lot of things but he has been “cool”. He said you know what the cool person does when asked if they know all the band members… no, I don’t know any of them. And they say it with confidence and then the “cool” people wonder how this person can be so cool that they don’t care what the cool people doing.

My god, us humans are a mess.

But, that got me thinking… does this make Trump cool? That’s pretty much how he acts. Tariffs? Immigration? Antifa? Portland? He smugly smiles.

Then it got me thinking…

Wait, that’s the exact opposite. He’s actually not cool because he acts like he knows shit that he has no idea of. How cool if he just said “I don’t know.”

Then it got me thinking… cool is cool. Whatever. It seems like the times it really gets us - as far as not being cool - is when we’re not “in” on something: dating, the party, the job, the trends, the fashion, the joke, the band members…

So is saying I don’t know, in those times, actually cool because the best kind of cool is just confidence in not knowing?

I don’t know.