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The last word on nerds
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 8:38 am on 2/20/2003
This is the smartest thing I’ve read in a long time. Back when, I would have made it part of an issue of Gazebo.
It’s wider-ranging than the title suggests, and it’s more incisive than you might think after reading the first “answer” the author provides, in the second section. It gets better; keep going. The key doesn’t lie in thinking new, revolutionary thoughts, nor in making revolutionary thoughts seem obvious; the key lies somewhere in between. It’s a subtle social difference, maybe compassion, that lies between making revolution seem obvious, and the quieter victory of making it plain.
It’s at least nice to know that solutions to some problems have been found, even if power doesn’t see the problem.
I’d still be running Gazebo, or better yet writing the book I once meant to write on geek culture, but I decided it wasn’t worth the time when I could be spending the time on not being a geek anymore. Well, I’ve been working on that a while. Now it’s more that thinking about these issues is just another way of thinking about how much it sucks to be in my position, and how much work it’s going to be to get out of it. Neither of which are helpful thoughts. So let this link be the last of it, at least for a while.