The change has been that the false opposition of jock Vs nerd has collapsed. You now have the Alcebiadian Chad, who is perfectly well informed and technically competent but also jacked, redpilled and couldn't care less.
The change has been that the false opposition of jock Vs nerd has collapsed. You now have the Alcebiadian Chad, who is perfectly well informed and technically competent but also jacked, redpilled and couldn't care less.
I'm gonna need more on this. This fundamental divide has been essential to how I've viewed the world.
Have you ever had a good conversation with someone with loads of muscles?
What's wrong with sitting on the sofa eating crisps and chatting shit like the rest of us?
Now yoga, gyms, health food predominate. London no longer really cares about what I am interested in. It has moved on.
One way to look at this is obviously gentrification. But I think it's a bit different to that. Buying second hand krautrock records and going to Plastic People are just as much the activities of a comfortably off leisure class as is yoga and artisan coffee.
not that potential for physical development.
I'm not convinced by this, tbh. Some stuff that used to be nerd culture is now mainstream culture but it feels a lot more like the mainstream's co-opting nerd shit rather than nerds dominating the mainstream. There might be office chat about Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, but if you make a comment about some obscure bit of the Silmarillion people are still going to look at you like you're a weirdo rather than showing awe at your incredible subcultural capital.I was going to make a similar point to barty. The nerds dominate the internet. They also dominate culture via things like superhero movies, Game of Thrones, video games and whatnot.
But to me this is a good example of mainstream taking stuff nerd stuff rather than nerds taking over the mainstream. It's massively popular but - in the same way that Woody Allen films mention Fellini but aren't Fellini - it mentions nerd stuff but it isn't nerd stuff. I've seen people (nerds I guess) complaining that saying something about Star Trek now and again and pretending to be a physicist does not a nerd make.One of the biggest comedy shows of the last decade was Big Bang Theory.
Though wait a minute, are we not mixing up nerds and geeks here?
I'm not convinced by this, tbh. Some stuff that used to be nerd culture is now mainstream culture but it feels a lot more like the mainstream's co-opting nerd shit rather than nerds dominating the mainstream. There might be office chat about Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones, but if you make a comment about some obscure bit of the Silmarillion people are still going to look at you like you're a weirdo rather than showing awe at your incredible subcultural capital.