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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2168614" data-attributes="member: 7240">This thread is great. Every time I look at it, it's talking about something slightly different. I want to latch onto something Kamikaze Midget said,I think one of the problems/issues in our hobby is what has happened to the position of geeks in society. In the past generation, geek culture has exploded into the mainstream. Thanks, largely, to the massive cultural over-representation of geeks in the first generations of computer programming, our subculture has begun to collect more and more people who are geeks by choice rather than necessity. This creates an uncomfortable dynamic for those of us who became geeks in high school because we had no other choice -- we simply could not socially function in other subcultures because our skills were insufficient. So, we're kind of like those working class families living in neighbourhoods that are being gentrified. On the one hand, we're pleased with all the cool coffee shops and art galleries opening down the street. On the other, we're expecting that any minute now, we'll get chased out of our ghetto. This helps to explain our incredulity when someone cute and/or successful expresses an attraction to our culture. Many of us are used to thinking of being geeks as a disability rather than a lifestyle choice. We immediately want to place you in the same category as amputee- and fat-fetishists. After all, why would you want to live in this slum when you could live anywhere? We live here because this is where we can afford to live. Anyway, I hope that makes things a little more comprehensible. If not, this post has allowed me to waste 23 minutes of time I would otherwise have spent writing about landscape Christianization in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe.</blockquote>

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