"Somewhere along the line most people pick
up the desire to be a cool person, which is just another way to make them buy
things. Once you’ve decided that you need to be a cool person, it makes you a
possible victim of anyone whose products are the equivalent of bottled smoke.
Somebody tells you to buy this particularly useless item and you’ll be a cool
person. No matter how stupid it seems, you have to buy it. Pet Rocks. Pringle’s
potato chips. whatever it is — the newest, the latest. Since the cool-person
thing is something you learn in school, and since the school business is pretty
suspicious and definitely tied up with the government, it makes you wonder
whether or not the desire to be cool is part of a government plot to make you
buy stupid things."
-
Frank Zappa
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