29/05/2009, Friday...
Of late i've developed a strong dislike for the word 'cool' (and also for its counterpart 'hot'). Everytime a boy (guy) or a girl (gal) delivers this word, my dislike grows stronger.The word is synonymous with 'good' or may be something else but that is what i made out of it. The word, kind of, epitomizes the urban youth.
The gilded youth of today - the late to bed and late to rise youth, the youth whose vitality lies with the 'touchscreen' , 3G compatible handsets(and those who don't have them,long for them), the i-pod youth, the Gucci and Kelvin Kleine youth(and not to mention those who pile up the cheaper alternatives to them, equally 'cool'..), the gals with "sartorial plights" (shorter the clothing, more expensive it is and more importantly cooler or maybe hotter (don't know) is the girl), the youth that regularly uses the words: fuck (guys), cheap (gals),etc., the 'boyfriend-girlfriend' youth, the disc going,pub going youth - are completely antithetic to what they are trying to imitate and what they are trying to achieve. The subtopia - the shopping malls, the multiplexes, the fast food chains... - is thronged by these vacuous urbanites. I used to think that hedonism is on the horizon, but it isn't, it's already there and is being accentuated by the media.
Not just the youth, there is an ever increasing number of 'cool parents' who want their children to be 'modern' and at the same time they want to conserve in them the rituals of past,the rituals of religion and the filial piety. The number of people going to temples and those involved in religious activities is on a rise and so is the number of homeless old age people and the crimes against the old.I fail to understand that why people travel hundreds of miles or stay awake for nights to please a Jagdambe Ma or a Santoshi Ma when their own Ma is on her deathbed counting her last breaths.
Celibacy is on a rise and so are the number of rape cases.
Fraternity is being subdued by the bonhomie fratricide of today.
I am tired of this cool new generation of Indian westerners, of the vague, undressed and tumultous utopian vanity of this cool gen X.
I don't know what 've i written and why 've i done that. I don't know if anyone can ever interconnect my sporadic thoughts.I don't know if someone will ever try to. But do i care ?? ... i never did... n i still don't...)
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I found this to be the best post...
I hate this so called 'Cool' attitude.
thanx for reading...
:)
good to know someone who hates this "nakli" army..!
oh...i so totally agree with all that you've written. its as if a whole generation of people have turned imbecile and are out branding stuff and associating themselves with the 'cooler' variety. i see this petty swindling as a run for social acceptance. the faker(read cooler) you are the more parties you get invited to and the more 'influential' you are thought to be...
hmmm... i feel its just like those 'imbecile pagans' who'll pray to anyone who can guide them to 'heaven'... no thought, no introspection.. a new kind of modern blind faith..
"There's room at the top they are telling you still..
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill..
If you want to be like all the fools on the hill.."
:)
"There's room at the top they are telling you still..
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill..
If you want to be like all the fools on the hill.."
beautiful...but is another vast topic in the same dimension...
very impressive.. :)
beautiful & impressive - i agree.. but just to be clean, from any plagiarism charges, i must tell you that these lines weren't written by me..!! just quoted them.. these are the last three lines of a song by John Lennon that goes by the name Working Class Hero.. try listening..
n hey thanx for reading...
:)
oh well..k..i'd check the song out.yeah... haven't heard it.
:) i had a good time reading.
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