This is an action club. Hello and welcome to ACFM the home of the weird left.

I'm Jeremy Gilbert and I'm here as usual with my friend Nausea Idol

Hello

and Kim Ilben.

Hello. And today we are going to be talking about a topic about which we all know a great deal I think and that is the subject of cool

So kir why do we want to talk about cool?

I've wanted to do an episode on Kool for a while, partly because

cool as a sort of psychological disposition, we're going to, or an attitude attitude we can sort of talk about it rather than

cool as just a sitting in for good but cool was quite an important component of how I put myself

together as an adult or young adolescent person.

It was important to me, particularly when I was young,

it still affects the way I think, see about the world, I think.

Part of what I'm really interested in is whether it still holds true,

whether young people today also have a similar conception of cool to the

to the one I have in my head and whether it's still an important attitude to them,

whether it forms part of themselves, etc.

Behind that is like a bigger question which I'm always really interested in, which is this

basic question of like why do we do the things we do, why do we believe the things we believe etc.

An important question of historical materialism I think, the idea that we need to

understand that we're made up or we're influenced by like historical and social

forces and like cool is an interesting one because it's not just about our ideas it's also

some it's like embodied do you know what I mean it's like embodied. Do you know what I mean? It's like it also

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