H+ (Plus) a New Religion by Edward De Bono

Author:Edward De Bono [Bono, Edward De]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780091910471
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

COOL

IN A PRIMARY school in England, the day before Guy Fawkes Day, a six-year-old had drawn a picture of Guy Fawkes about to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Guy Fawkes was labelled as being ‘cool’.

Guy Fawkes was about to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill many people. This behaviour was not very moral. But the apparent style of what he was doing led to the young girl calling him cool. This separation between the nature of the action and the style in which it is done is the basis of cool. There is an obvious danger in the approval of the style and the ignoring of the nature of the action.

In schools all over the world, children want to be cool. It is claimed that cool came from American slave culture. The only form of power available to slaves was personality power. This meant being disdainful, your own person, confident and unflustered by the world around you. Through jazz and other means, cool entered our culture.

Cool has no moral aspect at all. As long as you do something with style, that is cool. Films and television programmes depict cool gangsters.

In school, cool means stylish: wearing the right clothes and belonging to the right clique. It means being confident and being your own person. In general it means ‘good’. Surprisingly, there is no other term for ‘good’. No one wants to be a ‘goody-goody’ so cool has a clear field.

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