alt Hacker NewsNo, that's myth that we "uncool kids" fall into without realizing it.
Cool means you are confident. You're unbothered by what other people say because you have faith in yourself, you like yourself.
It does not mean "I don't care about anything." It just so happens that the average person doesn't care a lot about "things," so the average cool person doesn't either.
cool means you appear confident, attractive, and socially effortless even if there is effort behind the scenes. the meaning has been stretched to mean "socially desirable" which is a slightly broader category