Name: クールとは何か？ (What is Cool?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:04:26.000Z
Duration: 5 min 30 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

Hey, Vsauce Michael here, and a couple of weeks ago,

Vice's new channel Noisey blind folded me,

the Gregory Brothers, about 200 other people,

and then bused us to a hidden skrillex show.

They exhibit a style people want to emulate, they're fashionable.

But being cool isn't just about confidence or being above the situation.

In fact, what is considered cool changes all the time.

by time and location what was generally considered cool.

To truly get the origin of what we today mean by cool,

we're going to have to go back to West Africa in the 15th Century.

The Yoruba language has a great word, itutu.

It means physical beauty, but also being calm

And a similar, more specific term comes from the Italian concept of sprezzatura.

This was a way of behaving favored by the wealthy upper class in 15th Century Italy.

you wanted to act nonchalant, even if doing so would take a lot of work.

She doesn't laugh. She's exercising restraint.

It almost feels like she's looking down on you, smugly.

Now, to make this more clear, let's take a look at a recent discovery, a painting,

that used to be thought of as a copy of the Mona Lisa made years and years later.

Except, recent restoration has shown that the very same mistakes and corrections

that DaVinci made on the original were also done on this painting,

leading restorers to believe that this painting

was made side by side with the actual Mona Lisa.

It's even more clear that she's looking at you like "Huh, really?"

Related is the Italian concept of omerta.

This is keeping your cool and not telling the authorities anything about anybody.

It's the type of attitude you see in movies like Goodfellas or The Godfather.

People in those positions are subjected to authority in a very direct way,

and any kind of rebellion against authority or fighting against it

is most certainly going to be answered with nothing but punishment and very little chance of success.

And so instead, an attitude of ironic detachment is taken on,

which allows you to distance yourself from that authority

to be away from it, against it without actively confronting it and getting in trouble.

the actual word cool began to stick to this attitude.

it came out of the smoke filled nightclubs

where jazz, beatnik, and bohemian culture thrived.

The only way to freshen up that smoke filled air

Saxophonist Lester Young is credited with making this connection

and popularizing the use of the word cool,

even cooler is the fact that Lester also popularized the use of the word bread

to mean money. Well look at that, the sun has come out.

That's cool. It also means that it's a good time to talk about the brain.

Laurence Steinberg points out that there are systems in the brain that mature as we get older.

and this deal with social and emotional inputs.

This deals with regulating behavior and making ultimate decisions.

But these two networks do not mature at the same rate.

In fact, there's an awkward period in puberty and adolescence

where the social emotional network in our brain

is more active, and so, whether or not people

So in a way, you could say that the less worried you are with

being cool, the more developed your brain is.

The only thing that doesn't change, the only coolness that doesn't fade

Over the years, we have used all kinds of other words

to mean cool, but the one that has never changed, the one that has always been cool to use

And that's cool.  Go check out that skrillex concert footage.

Noisey is the channel that uploaded that new MIA video

as well as MIAs responses to YouTube comments.

And according to this guy, fat people shouldn't be making music.

All I know is, as always, thanks for watching.