Friday, June 08, 2012
Aptronym alert!
From the Science-a-go-go website:
The original jazzmen and beatniks used cool with a specific meaning, but when it reached the general public in 1958, cool meant only "high status as judged by my peers." And that's exactly what it still means.
The countercultural aspect has always been an Orwellian doublethink, deliberately introduced by our Satanic media to sell products and guarantee absolute rigid 100% ideological orthodoxy. The message has always been twofold: This month's officially cool fashion is what everyone must do AND this month's officially cool fashion is individualistic and rebellious.
Jesus, what a nimrod this Nimrod is.Sidenote: Along with the obvious aptronym, there's also a sort of syntactical aptronym in the article: "but this transition is by no way completed." Clearly the author started to write 'by no means', then transitioned to 'in no way', and left the transition incomplete! I can sympathize with him here... I've made the same type of error more times than I can count a stick at.
An intriguing new study - "Coolness: An Empirical Investigation" - suggests that the characteristics associated with coolness today are markedly different than those that originally generated the concept of cool. University of Rochester Medical Center psychologist Ilan Dar-Nimrod, who led the study, said that rebelliousness, emotional control, toughness and thrill-seeking no longer make up the essence of coolness. ...
"There is some transition from the countercultural cool to a generic version of it's good and I like it. But this transition is by no way completed," he concluded. "James Dean is no longer the epitome of cool. The much darker version of what coolness is still there, but it is not the main focus. The main thing is: Do I like this person? Is this person nice to people, attractive, confident and successful? That's cool today, at least among young mainstream individuals."
The original jazzmen and beatniks used cool with a specific meaning, but when it reached the general public in 1958, cool meant only "high status as judged by my peers." And that's exactly what it still means.
The countercultural aspect has always been an Orwellian doublethink, deliberately introduced by our Satanic media to sell products and guarantee absolute rigid 100% ideological orthodoxy. The message has always been twofold: This month's officially cool fashion is what everyone must do AND this month's officially cool fashion is individualistic and rebellious.
Jesus, what a nimrod this Nimrod is.Sidenote: Along with the obvious aptronym, there's also a sort of syntactical aptronym in the article: "but this transition is by no way completed." Clearly the author started to write 'by no means', then transitioned to 'in no way', and left the transition incomplete! I can sympathize with him here... I've made the same type of error more times than I can count a stick at.
Labels: Aptronym Alert
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