Closet Slashdotters: The 'Intellectually Curious'

An anonymous reader writes "Slashdotters are certified geeks, but apparently there's a bunch of other people out there who are very interested in science, technology, politics and culture but they don't want to be known as geeks. A media consulting firm called OMD did a study for the company that owns Space.com and LiveScience. They conclude that 60 million Americans can be called "intellectually curious." Intellectually, I'm curious what that makes the rest of them."

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Re:It makes them...

[fuzzix]

So stop railing on TV. If you don't like it, fine, but it's not some lower form of culture, only for the poor, dum serfs. To diss TV is not insightful, it's not some badge of honor ("I'm so educated, I don't even have a TV!"), it just makes you look like a jackass.

So the fact that I find it insulting and sitting in front of hour after hour of between advert filler gives me a headache is some sort of affectation designed to raise my profile in the eyes of people I'll never meet?

I don't have that sort of time...

The fact is, this bread and circus exists to prevent your average overworked wage slave from fully engaging their brains and realising how badly they're being fucked. If you must watch Friends then go ahead but don't call me elitist because I call it garbage. The fact that most entertainment has been fluff for as long as entertainment has existed doesn't make the current crop of tumblers and barkers any more compelling. Ancient Greeks and Romans enjoyed watching foolish clowns? Well I don't.

And we're back to my original point... Friends is not my sort of comedy.