Determining what is cool or what makes something cool is a difficult thing. Trends come and go so often that you can never really tell where the source of the fad is from. A good example of a fad that came and went really fast was Silly bands. My roommates and I were talking about this the other day. Silly Bands were popular for ONE summer pretty much. It is amazing looking back the past year at how the popularity of some things can spread so rapidly. What started the fad? The media or some small group of kids who started using them and it just caught on? Who knows?
On the other side of things, what makes things not cool anymore? What makes that pair of shoes or shirt you bought a year or two ago not fit in anymore? I guess it could be the over exposure of a certain thing to a group of people can make it not cool anymore or seem played out. Mostly though, I think that the upper class, or popular groups of people decide indirectly what “cool” is.
Thoughtful post, Sean - but it's not really connected to the readings in an explicit way.
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