Avoiding something simply because it is “cool”* is nearly as bad as liking something merely on the basis of it’s socially favoured status. This is because a person undertaking the former is still acknowledging the “cool” status of the item in question, and deciding their position on something solely because of the opinions of the masses. Flocking from trends is just as reprehensible as flocking towards trends, because you are allowing trends to influence your preferences. Your preferences should frolic freely amongst all possibilities and not flock anywhere in response to trends and the public opinion. A mindless avoider of trends who does not subject them to his own judgement but cultivates distaste for them based solely on the fact that others favour them is not noticeably less retarded than he who mindlessly cultivates a fondness for anything that currently happens to be in the limelight of other’s affections.
*”Cool” here need not mean mass-trendy, on the radio, etc. Cool can be anything that any group of people assent to within any subculture. “Cool” doesn’t need to mean favoured by the mass majority, just the majority of any particular social clique.
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Most people don’t really think for themselves, most people inherit a lot of their opinions from their parents and their opinions on what’s new will often come from other people. Personally I wish that more people would think about things like what’s right and what’s wrong and why for themselves, the same applies to what’s cool and what’s not but to be honest the latter doesn’t bother me as much as the former since it doesn’t result in the same level of unfair discrimination.