This is the world, now. And in a world where almost everyone is, by some degree, a nerd, is anyone, anymore?
But Nerd-dom has been diminished. Nowadays we have celebrity nerds, reality nerds and catwalk nerds.
We're marketable. We're sold to. We're a recognised market.
That's what leads to things like
While once we could take some pride in our anti-culture status, we are now seen as culture itself. And like any fashion trend, you know it's just going to be until the money moves elsewhere.
The core of the nerd movement (T.R.O.N., Transformers, Star Trek, The A-Team) is being remade for the popular audience - usually at the expense of what makes the series work for us...the intelligent writing and the canon. And in it's place are fart jokes, heroin-chic and muscle-beach.
We're being served what we wished for, but like some kind of sick Aladdin's lamp, they're preverted away from what we dreamed of. And we still go to see them because "It's the closest thing they'll get."
Look at
Watchmen. Most of us thought it couldn't be done. Even with Terry Gilliam. And then it was done. And it was accurate (ish). Spiderman was accurate (ish). Batman was crap, but Dark Knight worked...
And it was ignored.
You see, we've been allowed in to the party as long as we stay in the kitchen and they get to rifle through our booze. We still have all the nerd-chic (and nerd-chicks) we ever had, but all that's changed is that we're being acknowledged.
Well, almost all...
You see...like a lot of minorities, we've been sneaking people in for some time. Not those trend-hopping freaks like Mugging Fecks, but REAL people like Sir Patrick Stewart, David Tennant, Claudia Black, Sarah Michelle Gellar.
You see, the one thing we nerds can do is solve problems. Maybe we do still forget little things like washing up and other things, but solving things... We're there.
Bill Gates showed what happens to a nerd with power, and we've been sneaking them past the Jock line for some time now.
Vin Diesel? Nerd. Jack Black? Nerd. Charlie Brooker / Stephen Fry / Dara O Briain? Nerdx3
And nerds in power.
We're not letting you take the reins away from us this time. We spent our time learning how to manipulate. Every nerd you chop down, two more respawn in its place.
Jocks. Your time is fast approaching. You ARE on your way to destruction.
All your decades are belong to us.