Author Event: Dick Pountain on the UK's Cool Youth
Those of us in the States tend to think that to be cool is quintessentially American. But, youth in other countries understandably think that they, too, exhibit qualities associated with being cool.
Dick Pountain, author of Cool Rules, recently wrote an article discussing the apparent link between the rise in violence in the UK and the rise of the "Cool (with a capital C)" ethic.
Pountain distinguishes between "cool" as a mere term of approval and "Cool," which he describes as:
. . . a complete ethic that encompasses those other senses [of the word], an extreme form of individualism that can be summarized as a conviction that society's mores apply to everyone except yourself, and possibly your mates.