Simpsons on 'Cool'

From watching a classic Simpsons episode, I saw the idea of cool more evolve around both cool things and people.

With things like music, dares (like Homer and the cannonball shots), and all these other abstract ideas that show something new, different, out of trend... it makes the idea of cool evolved around those things.

In this case with the episode, Homer was cool when he took up the job. He found it different, and a new way for him to gain his reputation of coolness back to him that he had long ago as a teenager. In this situation, Homer is the more focused idea that’s cool... but the job he had (plus the cannon and cannonball themselves), are THINGS that are cool as well.

So, to me, in reflection, both things and people are marked upon as cool. ... Or wait, perhaps not lol (last moment turn). It's the people that help motivate the things that appear to be cool, but without those things, those people can't become cool in the first place.

... In ways of looking at it, this episode (and life in general) shows that Homer (the person) was cool, but only because he took up the risk of his new job, taking cannonballs to the gut (the thing). It’s because of the two contributing factors does ‘cool’ get noticed more better.