a spiritual core to them, and their "woke" politics cuts them off at the knees of embrace the spirituality of other cultures (like what leftists did in the 60s till the 80s). their only recourse is a nebulous modern humanism and cosmicism that equals the "wisdom" of a pothead
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looking at high def images of galaxy clusters and gong "woooooow WE ARE ALL STAR STUFF MAAAAAN". Wendig and the other luminaries of the Nerd culture industry are really just hedonists and nihilists at the end of the day. only the most shallow of NPC could ever find "profundity"
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in such a tweet (or any tweet by bill Nye, Neil Tyson, etc). its got that "cutesy, zayny" style of modern tumblr nerdism to it, its a pathetic attempt at disguising its own groundlessness with the whole "create your own reality" nonsense that has become orthodoxy in

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in short, everything about this tweet infuriates me, but why bother getting angry. its almost tragicomic how these brainlets have convinced people that they are paragons of intellect in their cocoon of nerdism. Nerdism has detached itself from genuine ability and intelligence.
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its all just a pastiche of insight and depth. back in the day, "nerd culture" actually had depth and substance, but now its the most mainstream, perfect tool of western cultural consumerism.
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"Nerdgeoisie" lmao nice.
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CITATION: the term came from
@KANTBOT20K haha!
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