If I understand correctly, your position is that we lose status points when we say weird (as in a few standard deviations outside the normal range) but likely true things, and it’s useful to get the points back by being cool (=dressing well).
That is not my position.
Being cool is a specific social strategy (not synonymous with dressing well). The nature of that strategy frees one to do a lot more nonconformist-signalling things, without losing status each time, because doing nonconformist-signalling things is an expected part of people playing a “cool” social role.
That is not my position.
Being cool is a specific social strategy (not synonymous with dressing well). The nature of that strategy frees one to do a lot more nonconformist-signalling things, without losing status each time, because doing nonconformist-signalling things is an expected part of people playing a “cool” social role.