Idea for a short story
A self-obsessed idiot who is only interested in being 'cool' gravitates towards an underground movement without fully understanding that they are political radicals. Investigated by the secret police, he is too dim to realise the danger he is in. When the government agents realise this, they try and co-opt him, but they are simply too square for him to cooperate with. His sangfroid and refusal to compromise make him a hero to the underground. But as the resistance becomes more widespread, it stops being so cool and by the time that the government is actually overthrown, he is thoroughly bored of it and rejects the offer of becoming the new leader of the country to do something more cool instead.