Cool is bogus, dude

Everyone admires cool.

So much so that we strive for coolness ourselves.

We also desire the approval of the cool crowd to the point of making ourselves miserable.

Bill Clinton was cool when he played saxophone on the Arsenio Hall show.

Tom Cruise was cool as a fighter pilot.

Michael Jordan was cool for hanging his tongue out while he dunked.

Miley Cyrus is considered cool for hanging her tongue out whenever her picture is taken.

In the 80’s, big hair and neon colors were cool.

In the 90’s flannel shirts and dirty jeans were cool.

In the 00’s, pre ripped up jeans were cool.

Today, skinny jeans are cool.

Adults try to be cool.

They spend money they don’t have to be cool.

They spend ridiculous money on things that aren’t even close to the value they are priced at all in the name of cool.

We try to attract people to church using cool.

The problem there is that every time cool changes, the church has to change too.

The people who decide what is cool (the media, hollywood, New York fashion week) are the most foolish people on the planet.

They don’t know how to stay faithful, let alone married. They don’t know how to pay their taxes. They don’t know how to avoid addictions. I recently saw a 20/20 episode where an alcoholic well known for her rehab stints was lecturing a set of parents for fighting the “losing battle” of keeping their children off of alcohol.

Is it ok to replace the “c” with an “f” to describe this behavior?

If only the cool crowd would let us know.