I still call anyone who is infatuated with a topic of interest a nerd, but usually tongue in cheek because the likelihood is I'm also interested
NathanielThomas
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Of interest, in Canada's 2011 federal election the Conservative party with Stephen Harper won by painting Michael Ignatieff as a book nerd professor from Harvard University.
They ran ads with taglines such as "Just visiting," "Just in it for himself," and, most notoriously, "He Didn't Come Back For You." These all suggested he was an erudite professor from the USA who wanted to run Canada for his own self-aggrandizement and mocked his intelligence and academic bona fides.
They are among the best at it, you have to admit
I feel this is highly inaccurate because it would imply these faults are on the slave and not on the system. It's not about the job, it's about the slavery itself.
I found through personal experience that the prestigiousness of the job is highly irrelevant; it's the working that sucks. It's the mandatory devotion to literally anything that sucks one's soul from one's body. And yes, that does become repetitive, and leads to some of the symptoms described above.
But much of the above list are based on factors that are forced upon all of us:
- Working, for no explicable reason in a modern society where we are grotesquely wealthy and have a surfeit of everything
- Commuting, a pointless and punishing exercise, often in transportation systems that are lazily thought of and constructed, mostly for cars and not human beings
- Exhaustion, mental and physical, from the toil of slavery, preventing the inspiration of new activities and hobbies
- Having to fake one's personality at work in order to conform to a social order so that one can participate in a capitalistic society one doesn't even want any part of
- Uses substances to cope with trauma, such as coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs
- Is too tired on the weekends, using them to recover from the cycle of work
- Mental illness from trauma, unresolved because of a lack of health care funding for mental health, leads him to consider extreme options
It's about the system, not the slaves.
There's always going to be meganerds who find insane builds in games.
I remember in Divinity Original Sin 2 I was at the final boss and it was stupid hard. So I went online to ask for help in Reddit and minmax nerds were like: Do you have skin graft? Do you have Green Tea? Do you have Adrenaline?
And sure enough, after respeccing the fight was a joke.
Of course, you can just beat DoS2 with barrelmancy, the most OP skill of all!