"When Did Optimism Become Uncool?
We are inclined to depose that it has always been uncool.
Well, I discover that the line 'Call no man happy until he is dead', is from Aeschylus, and we very much doubt that he was the first to realise that you sound cooler and deeper if you voice existential despair and a general sense that the glass is falling ( Read more... )

Have been given to think by various things hither and yon, about people who desire to be cool, and therefore look at the cool people (or the people whom they perceive to be the Cool Kidz) and go and do likewise. Except, getting it wrong either ever so slightly or by massive degrees. Partly, sometimes, it seems, because they are taking their idea of ( Read more... )