An accessible and entertaining lens for navigating the ethics of our time, On Being Awesome provides a new and inspiring framework for understanding ourselves and creating meaningful connections in our everyday lives. Put more simply: You suck.įrom street art to folk singers, Proust to the great etiquette writer Emily Post, President Obama to former Los Angeles Dodger Glenn Burke, Riggle draws on pop culture, politics, history, and sports to explore the origins of awesome, and delves into the nuances of what it means to suck and why it’s so important to strive for awesomeness. And if you’re a cheapskate, self-promoter, killjoy, or douchebag, you’re the type of person who shuts social openings down. Awesome people excel at creating social openings that encourage expressions of individuality and create community. We all know people who are awesome and people who suck, but what do we really mean by these terms? Have you ever been chill or game? Do you rock or rule? If so, then you’re tapped into the ethics of awesomeness. But don’t miss its profound ambition, which is to show how philosophy unearths the structure of ordinary language, defines the meaning of life in routine business, and poses the question of how best to live.” -Aaron James, author of Assholes: A Theory “Nick Riggle’s fun book is ‘awesome’ by its own definition. Fuck Hope.In this lively treatise, pro-skater-turned-philosopher Nick Riggle presents a theory of awesomeness (and its opposite, suckiness) that’s both sharply illuminating and more timely than ever There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: “The Public Sucks. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Term limits ain’t going to do any good you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.
It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. Facebook Twitter Drop the term ‘awesome’ into your search engine and you’re sure to rack up close to two billion. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. Nick Riggle, being awesome in his days as a professional skater. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. The first is that I want to show off the cool and innovative work that’s happening in the field of aesthetics right now, both to the wider philosophical community and to the general public. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. “George Carlin, as early as 2001, noted in his book Napalm & Silly Putty: Everybody says suck.
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