When I heard that a University of Rochester psychologist was
heading a team of researchers tasked with exploring what cool means, some breezy
cats out of the Bay area immediately appeared in a musical flashback. Right on
if you are a true R&B aficionado who guessed Tower of Power. Back in the
day, I had the in-person pleasure of hearing frontman Lenny Williams blast the
lyrics “What is Hip?” over a powerful horn section. A concert of epic
proportions, hip permeated each and every note the vocalist sang and musicians played.
Of course, with the reference to ‘hip,’ Williams wasn’t inquiring
about a body part but more about a state of mind. From where I come, hip and
cool have always shared that unique commonality. Like everything else, language
evolves over time to take on different meanings but what remains unchanged is
my personal popular culture opinion: If one must ask, then one truly doesn’t know. 
Hip!Y'know - one should never have to inquire about "cool"...it's the one slanguage that has not evolved..."cool" has remained the same (love your picture depiction).
ReplyDeleteThanks for the pic kudos. The same? Really? At one time, cool was meant as a distinction and now based on the usage of some, it's been watered down to mean ok.
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