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It's true that we've gone from "oh good now it's cool to be a nerd!" and rapidly progressed to "oh god the really bitter ones are using their success for revenge." What's wild is the image I have of an 80's "reaganaut" (besides a bigot with bad taste) is someone who wants to be out and with people. They want a fuck ton of money to throw around in huge, public, ostentatious ways. These nerds are all obsessed with their fortresses of solitude. Like look even at your brolosopher grifters on the right - they live in sterile, expensive apartments. They never show themselves with people. They are offering this weird cult guru situation of "you don't need people, you need my supplement and course and you will be a king like me." Musk, Zuck, all those fucks (hyuk hyuk hyuk) believe and feed into this shit.
Now they're mainstreaming eugenics and it's getting really bad.
Its not like they made the country antiintellectual, ppl hate when someone knows more than them and refuse to change their views, they just assume they are in the right and double down
Oh god no, this has fuck all to do with being a nerd, the author's overreliance on a film reference not withstanding.
Social netwok had the right of it
for those who missed the reference
In the 1980s, being a nerd meant being a target for bullies, and we didn't fare too well. The nerd hierarchy (in which the tech nerds looked down on Trekkies and Furries) was rather brutal, and informs why the furry / otherkin moral panic is mixed in with the trans moral panic.
Eventually, every company needed an MIS and nerds showed they were useful after all. This is not the good ending.
A parallel problem came from young people having libidos that no-one was allowed to acknowledge. We were all incels before the term, and they tried to teach me math when my brain was telling me I needed to rut. Even today, society disregards horny teens, creating a wide pathway to the Alt-Right (Immortan Joe's Warboys) who respect only Alpha Males. Our Christian-centric sex-negative culture fuels the young-men-to-Nazi pipeline.
I don't have a solution for it. The common response to horny-teens-gone-white-supremacists is to say yeah, fuck those guys in total contempt, so they're going to continue to be an available and eager force of militants and voters for any charismatic strongman. They may go Herbivore (like Japanese men) once Generative AI porn gets good.
I’ll be the first to say millennials have a lot of bullshit and a high opinion of themselves, but something was cracked that made it so most of the white men of our generation aren’t complete total fuckwads who want to stomp marginalized people. If I remember correctly the majority of white male millennials (55%?) broke for Harris. We need to figure out what the fuck was happening at the time, cause I think it’s a lot more than just “Obama.” A ton of us came into the economy at a terrible time with the housing crisis. We were the generation of unpaid interns. But we didn’t go all gestures to musk and trump
Leaded petrol exposure
I'm not even joking.
But Gen Z white men broke for Trump.
In general, nerds have a history of being treated badly, bullied even, by the people you are talking about.
They arent around people because people harm them more than help them.
I remember the game Bully extended this take. The main character has no beef with the nerds, and helps them, but they still extend their victim complex to him and antagonize him.
Basically, it's a problem with using the generalized word "people" in statements like that.
I think that’s a rather simplistic explanation tbh. There is literally a bro culture now about basically grafting capitalism onto self care that really fosters this shit too.
Yeah i'm really disappointed in how many people are taking the most facile reading of this.
This isn't about nerds. It's about capitalist arseholes.