Now Paul McCartney, That Fucker Was Cool

"What happened to being cool?" - David Bielanko

Article HERE re: the reassignement of what being "cool" means to the youth of today, which is different from the past:

So what is the current state of cool? Dar-Nimrod said he was surprised to find that what might be called “classical coolness”—a Don Draperesque air of detachment and even rebellion—is still important, but less so than characteristics such as friendliness, attractiveness, and humor.

First of all, if you're doing a study on cool, the guy's name can't be "Nimrod", for fuck's sake.

But the point is that by definition of the word "cool", you can't be friendly and cuddly and still be cool. Cool means icy, aloof. Cats, as much as I despise them, are "cool", dogs are not. Can't they just come up with another word for these kind of people?  "Doggy", maybe? Cool dudes sit back and don't talk, which is why I could never be cool. I can't shut the fuck up. Also, I wonder if this sudden change in what's "cool" has to do with the most modern of what  idiots  society thinks of as being "cool", ie the hipster, who has reveled in pretending to not WANT to be "cool":

One of the more annoying things it seems very important for hipsters to do is excitedly tell you how "uncool" they are, which is hipsterese for "doesn't that make me cool?"

No.  It doesn't.