HW # 33 Cool Paper Outline

Thesis

If having an awareness of what it is to be cool is a part of our human nature, and there are
serious dangers involved with trying to be cool, then our society needs to change the way
most people go about trying to be cool.

Dangers:

Too much consumption of "cool" products
- wasted time
- zoning out/short attention span
- not developing talents/skills
Talk about Feed


Having your identity too dependent on what other people think of you
- Trying too hard to fit in/giving into peer pressure
- Wanting respect from the wrong people
- not thinking independently
Talk about The Death of Ivan Ilych and A Poverty of the Mind


Having an identity that shuts out other people
- Being a bully
- Being a prisoner of yourself
- Not developing sense of humanity
Talk about The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, A Christmas Carol,
"Cool Guy" (HW24) assignment, and existentialism (Manley's class)