Been thinking a lot about sincerity or the act of pretending to lack sincerity in an effort to seem aloof and unattached which is then determined as “being cool” or admirable. I can’t make any serious statements, but I personally would theorize that we are attracted to these sort of aloof people because we have a fundamental drive to know things and people and understand them to determine friend or foe, or how they can be helpful for our own survival. So people that we can not easily categorize we may be attracted to because we feel a fundamental instinct to investigate them further. Like I said I am in no position to be making vast assumptions but think even in your own life someone can seem so “cool”, and then you find out more about them and their life, and that “cool” aspect starts to fade because you see the similarities to your own life and experiences and you know yourself and what was mysterious and cool is now relatable and ordinary. Ironically as much as one attempts to be cool, the least cool person will always be themselves.
NOTES ON NOTES
As the page name states these are not going to be papers or lengthy blog posts, but simply notes pertaining to my own work, aspects of design, and life in general. These posts aren’t meant to reach a wide audience, but merely document my own thoughts to perhaps be expanded upon… or to just die on a meaningless web page (which is still better than never getting out of my head in the first place).
So stay tuned, or don’t, they’re only notes.