Wednesday, January 13, 2010

33Paper Outline

Introduction:Being cool is a way for people to feel more significance and have a sense of importance due to our acknowledgment of mortality,filling a hidden emptiness within with artificial happiness.
Cool a artificial happiness to fill the empty feeling within
(Something along those lines....)

1. The Emptiness
-What is the emptiness? The feeling?
-There is no sense of knowing the meaning of your own life and identity.

2. Where does it come from/What does it do?
-Becker's Theory of acknowledgment of mortality
-Competition among those who may be taking our emptiness
-The need to be needy

1. The Artificial Replacement
a. Role playing
-List of certain roles
-People's Stories
-Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude

b. Aggrandizing
-Tattoos
-Interviews

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