Jakob told me I was "odddddd smart" for being able to understand the reading today because he found it really confusing and it made me feel cool/good. How do you interpret/categorize this kind of cool? All the cool that we have been talking about only involved criticizing people for trying to be cool. Cool has only been people presenting themselves as what they interpret cool as but this was a feeling of cool. It was a sense of cool that was not purposely displayed because "it was me" because it was "what I liked" or because "I felt like it, it's me and it's what I want to do." Would this be closer to a genuine cool or would it just be categorized as another supervised action?
I realized when I was explaining it that just my thought and the process that I explained it was all set up for me to do like you gave me the reading for me to think about and all but did you set up my unintended feeling? Did you think to yourself, she's going to feel cool after this. Shes going to feel a sense of accomplishment?
Do you think cool isn't a presentation at all but just a feeling? like a small burst of confidence?
Cool in our school could be mostly seen as the "popular" kids because they are fashionable and make themselves known by portraying their image in their "own ways" (they may think they portray themselves their own ways but the style is still all the same.) Maybe cool is that one quiet person who just stands out once in awhile because they feel that little small spark of confidence that it seems the cool kids have but I think all they might have sometimes is arrogance.
This was just a random burst of thought but I hope you do answer my questions because I am really interested in the other views that we can have on this topic.
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I agree with J re: your analysis.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of cool as "small bursts of confidence" makes some sense to me, for many people in a lot of situations.
Yes, I think feeling good about ourselves in classes because of our ability to figure out hard puzzles IS a form of cool. Yes, I think that's a part of surveillance about impressing others with our ability to "succeed" in a rigged game. When I was a kid me and two other kids (both named Adam) would compete to be the first to finish our math problems. When we finished we would shout out, "I'm done!"
And I think there's an additional element, the pleasure of deepening our understanding of the world. That feels powerfully good. Videogames mimic this by letting you "discover" crucial clues at specific intervals, which hooks people like fish on an anchor.