belief and value

"So, when we find somebody who is cool on television or on the radio, we associate ourselves with this person to feel valid ourselves. And the problem i have with this is that we rarely know what the person believes who we are associating ourselves with. The problem with this is that it indicates there is less value in what people believe, what they stand for; it only matters that they are cool. In other words, who cares what i believe about life, I only care that i am cool. Because in the end, the undercurrent running through culture is not giving people value based upon what they believe and what they are doing to aid society, the undercurrent is deciding their value based upon whether or not they are cool." Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz, p. 105