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• 23 Jun 08
  

  Wisely

  Indeed, like James Dean, cool enshrines the American longing for perpetual adolescence. Cool is vaguely irresponsible, decidedly noncommittal. Living together is cool. Being married is not—unless you count the dismissive intonation of the word that makes it a synonym for whatever and serves to indicate the speaker's, rather than the hearer's, coolness."

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  • As every teenager knows, it is definitely impossible to be cool and have a parent, at least a visible one. Dependence is the very annihilation of coolness. So SUVs are cool—minivans are not. No one has ever designed a cool diaper bag, and no one ever will.

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