Cool World: An Analysis of a Popular Life Attitude

Author: Shi Tao
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
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Cool, a humanized act of rebellion, hiding everything behind a mask of indifference;
Cool, a new secular virtue, no one wants to be a good person anymore;
Cool, equally inspiring to women as it is to men;
Cool, both a pretense of maturity and an extension of youth;
Cool, a deliberately posed attitude that can suppress a storm of emotional turmoil;
Cool, for those at a disadvantage, it is an attitude of resisting conquest and defiance against humiliation;
Cool, an exaggerated narcissism of the self and a detached, ironic attitude;
Cool, an almost self-destructive hedonism.