Stop complaining, you nerd! You people… you have the high IQs, you can go and work in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street, or end up on TV as some famous geek scientist, or you can even be paid to spend your life studying the mating habits of the lesser crested wallaby or whatever weird shit you’re into. But no, that’s not enough, you want to be regarded as heroes, and you want everyone to bow down to whatever world-smashing or social-engineering scheme catches your fancy this week, and you want your chess club to be the centre of all social activity. Well, get in line, everyone else wants to be the centre of attention too. The difference is that you geeks are the ones who really might blow up the planet while trying to make your rocket, or your robot, or your sex potion. So of course the grown-ups have to keep you in line, until you can grow up yourselves.
Your point appears to be “nerds are just as popular as everyone else, they just aren’t contented with that and want to be more popular”. But, at least if one uses getting laid as a proxy for being popular, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Stop complaining, you nerd! You people… you have the high IQs, you can go and work in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street, or end up on TV as some famous geek scientist, or you can even be paid to spend your life studying the mating habits of the lesser crested wallaby or whatever weird shit you’re into. But no, that’s not enough, you want to be regarded as heroes, and you want everyone to bow down to whatever world-smashing or social-engineering scheme catches your fancy this week, and you want your chess club to be the centre of all social activity. Well, get in line, everyone else wants to be the centre of attention too. The difference is that you geeks are the ones who really might blow up the planet while trying to make your rocket, or your robot, or your sex potion. So of course the grown-ups have to keep you in line, until you can grow up yourselves.
But it’s the “grow-ups” who tell us to build world-burning death-tipped up-goers for great justice and [insert favourite ideology here].
Your point appears to be “nerds are just as popular as everyone else, they just aren’t contented with that and want to be more popular”. But, at least if one uses getting laid as a proxy for being popular, that doesn’t seem to be the case.