I found this comment really insightful - it summarized my own thoughts own popularity/nerdiness/loserosity better than I have ever put them. I always thought that was true, that the pop people are less happy; they're too busy trying to conform and hold their "position" that they forget to just enjoy life. While they're insulting us "geeks" to try and make themselves look better, we're just ignoring them and having fun.
This attitude really drives me nuts.
A *person* is a *person*!
"Popular" people are not all mindless insects, all frantically and desperately trying to doggy-paddle to the top of the social heap, they just have different priorities than you. If you would accept that they don't care about when 2.4 comes out (much less know what 2.4 refers to) , and you don't care how the football game went last weekend, then everybody would be better off.
You might say that they insult "geeks" to make themselves look better, but you do the same thing, stating not only that their lifestyle is worse than yours, but going farther, saying that they are unhappy, which, in my opinion is a far greater insult than simply calling someone a "loser."
The argument is the same in terms of the music issue: Popular vs. "My favorite underground band that nobody's ever heard of." Letting the popularity of music influence your taste, whether positive or negative, still leaves popularity in the equation, which is just what you accuse "pop culture people" of doing.
Maybe instead of speaking so loud about how you don't care what those cool kids think, try doing your own thing, and really not caring about it.
It seems to me that this was not the ordinary slashdot user interview, it was the typical xenophobic, self-congratulating geek interview.
[JACK]
"If God is everywhere, is He in the toilet?"
-- Matt Groening, School is Hell
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I found this comment really insightful - it summarized my own thoughts own popularity/nerdiness/loserosity better than I have ever put them. I always thought that was true, that the pop people are less happy; they're too busy trying to conform and hold their "position" that they forget to just enjoy life. While they're insulting us "geeks" to try and make themselves look better, we're just ignoring them and having fun.
This attitude really drives me nuts.
A *person* is a *person*!
"Popular" people are not all mindless insects, all frantically and desperately trying to doggy-paddle to the top of the social heap, they just have different priorities than you. If you would accept that they don't care about when 2.4 comes out (much less know what 2.4 refers to) , and you don't care how the football game went last weekend, then everybody would be better off.
You might say that they insult "geeks" to make themselves look better, but you do the same thing, stating not only that their lifestyle is worse than yours, but going farther, saying that they are unhappy, which, in my opinion is a far greater insult than simply calling someone a "loser."
The argument is the same in terms of the music issue: Popular vs. "My favorite underground band that nobody's ever heard of." Letting the popularity of music influence your taste, whether positive or negative, still leaves popularity in the equation, which is just what you accuse "pop culture people" of doing.
Maybe instead of speaking so loud about how you don't care what those cool kids think, try doing your own thing, and really not caring about it.
It seems to me that this was not the ordinary slashdot user interview, it was the typical xenophobic, self-congratulating geek interview.
[JACK]
"If God is everywhere, is He in the toilet?"
-- Matt Groening, School is Hell