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Coolness is relative. If you thought the kids at the "cool" table really were cool, maybe their opinion mattered. If you thought they were shallow, narcissistic twits, then why would you care what they thought about anything? I find it very useful when someone espouses an opinion that reading (or being well-educated) is uncool; it's a great litmus test to identify a jackass.
Blindly taking the majority's word for the "correct" or "cool" way to live is, IMHO, the fast track to hell. Walden, the unexamined life is not worth living, and all that.
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