Lost train of thought

jimmycassidy:

ive been trying to write this thing for days and its just not coming out the way i wanted it so im just going to pull a kerouac and write out the idea as it comes to me. im even listening to bebop in an attempt to capture the whole aesthetic, dont judge me. its been brought to…

I’ve been wondering about this for awhile, and here’s a good opportunity to talk.

Being a nerd no longer means what it did because of a thing called scarcity. Call it a scarcity of coolness. See as a kid there are always more of us who feel like nerds than “cool kids”. We find other things to obsess over and call cool, but deep down we’d probably chuck them aside to join that one lunch table. You don’t wanna admit it, but it’s true. You were 16 and dumb.

Now you’re older. And for a variety of reasons we’ll simply call the internet, being a nerd has changed. Nerds have found other nerds. It’s not surprising really because nerds excel at things other than social elevation. Soon we can conclude that the cool kids themselves were never all that cool to begin with.

Sorry to say, but that’s when nerds stopped being nerds. Yelling out, “fuck your coolness” is like saying “i win whatever we were playing”. Awesome. You’re a rebel who doesn’t acknowledge what he’s rebelling against.

Remember how that movie was called Revenge of the Nerds? It wasn’t Triumph of the Nerds or The Nerd Revolution. Those are the movies we’re living. What used to be an embarrassing habit is now probably someone’s Facebook interest. The only thing that isn’t cool is actually being cool. (make Joseph Heller reference)

So when I say the scarcity of coolness is to blame, it doesn’t mean that nothing is cool anymore. I mean that everything is cool now. That’s the problem nerds are facing, and they don’t seem to like it.

Well tough shit. I ran track.