In cyberspace, we quickly learned, no one could catch you being uncool.
"When the stock market collapsed, you were uncool if you were weren't saying that the U.S. was going into recession," he said.
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool," Seymour Hoffman reassures my teary film hero.
They get the girls, but we're smarter," he said, adding, "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool".
Indeed, the enshrinement of hipness as a long-term attitude — the idea that first you're cool and then you're uncool and then you die — is probably the worst legacy of the culture of the 60s.
And you're too old to be cool but also too old to care if you're cool, because caring if you're cool is trés uncool but caring whether you're uncool because you care about being cool is even less cool.
It doesn't matter if you were never a Rolling Stone writer in the 60s – if you ever felt like you were on the outside looking in, real-life critic Lester Bangs' (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) line seared itself in your memory when you first saw Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical film: "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool".
But those little dopamine-inducing notifications had little true connection on the other side, and it's easy to think you're uncool when everyone else seems to be having so much fun.
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
This is observably true, yet, Bangs continues to speak, rewarding Miller and the viewers of this quasi-autobiographical 2000 Cameron Crowe production with a bit of redemptive sentimentality: "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone when you're uncool".
