If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves
If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.
What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).
I think men spend so much time passing for being men.
...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or the kids I knew, the isolation they felt - was almost total. They were not part of society; no one thought they were cool.