What it is to be cool

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

But if we want to get pedantic, we can just argue that cool is about temperature.

I wasn't trying to be pedantic, really. I just see a difference between the, "I'm comfortable with who I am and define my own coolness" vs. the, "What particular pop-culture phenomena does a society and generation share as a whole that guide large social ebbs and flow." Whatever term you want to use ("cool" falls in and out of favor, but it's always around and certainly covers the most ground of any other word), the latter is both interesting to ponder and far easier (still not easy, but easier) to pin down and quantify/qualify seeing as it's shared vs. personal.