First, I want to thank you for using my universal response to disappointment in humanity:
Still, I am not disputing semantics with you; rather bring up an important point: elitist nerds should not act like this. They should know better. And what better forum to remind them of the importance of their behavior than this?
Years ago this topic was brought up by wise history professor I meet who disguises himself as Guy Fawkes and whose true identity is not known by anyone. No, really I'm not making him up; he's the same guy in charge of Revolution of Evangelion site. Anyways, as you might very well expect, he show me a clip of a dubbed samurai movie to explain the situation elitist nerds and geeks faced.
In the clip an aged man stands up in front of a quorum of old samurai and discusses the behavior of young samurai. Young Samurai are brutish, rude, lack understanding, act disrespectful to others, and generally matching the behavior of the individuals you originally described. But, the man added, this is the fault of the old samurai. Old samurai are arrogant, and act as if young samurai are not worthy becoming as they are, which allows the young samurai to continue to be ignorant of the old samurai's wisdom and teaches the young samurai to behave the way they do. The quorum of old samurai did not like what they heard and stated the man sounded like he was a young samurai.
The jerks you describe are not elitist nerds, they are young nerds, but the reason they act this way and believe that this is the way an elitist nerd should act is because of the behavior of the old nerds. The real elitist nerds out there, who have wasted their time gaining vast pools of useless information in various subjects, need to be aware of the effect their behavior has on noob nerds, otherwise they will continue to create these jerks and in turn soil the reputation the title "elitist" or "nerd" should have among the circles of people they care about.
It's okay to strive to be the best, and you're free to have the confidence to believe you know more about a topic than others because of the effort you put into making it your business to know more. But don't think you're better than others just because you know something they do not. And do not hide knowledge from would-be elitist nerds to ensure your supremacy over them. Your goal should always be to inspire others to be interested in the topic you dedicated yourself in and educate them to be as well informed as you are on the facts, while respecting their current opinion.
Do this and maybe we will have less of the elitist nerds describe here in the world. And that's something I think we can all agree on wanting.
I'm not sure if elitist nerd the best label for what sounds like a snob, hater, or Comic Book Guy. Since the Nerds are watching, I'll probably get in trouble trying to define them, but in an attempt to clear up all the various meanings the term has gained, let me try to. A nerd is someone learns useless information. A geek is someone who learns to do useless things. A fanboy is someone with a strong bias opinion about something useless. It's possible to be all three for any given useless subject matter.VanityGirl said:I want to punch them in the face.
Still, I am not disputing semantics with you; rather bring up an important point: elitist nerds should not act like this. They should know better. And what better forum to remind them of the importance of their behavior than this?
Years ago this topic was brought up by wise history professor I meet who disguises himself as Guy Fawkes and whose true identity is not known by anyone. No, really I'm not making him up; he's the same guy in charge of Revolution of Evangelion site. Anyways, as you might very well expect, he show me a clip of a dubbed samurai movie to explain the situation elitist nerds and geeks faced.
In the clip an aged man stands up in front of a quorum of old samurai and discusses the behavior of young samurai. Young Samurai are brutish, rude, lack understanding, act disrespectful to others, and generally matching the behavior of the individuals you originally described. But, the man added, this is the fault of the old samurai. Old samurai are arrogant, and act as if young samurai are not worthy becoming as they are, which allows the young samurai to continue to be ignorant of the old samurai's wisdom and teaches the young samurai to behave the way they do. The quorum of old samurai did not like what they heard and stated the man sounded like he was a young samurai.
The jerks you describe are not elitist nerds, they are young nerds, but the reason they act this way and believe that this is the way an elitist nerd should act is because of the behavior of the old nerds. The real elitist nerds out there, who have wasted their time gaining vast pools of useless information in various subjects, need to be aware of the effect their behavior has on noob nerds, otherwise they will continue to create these jerks and in turn soil the reputation the title "elitist" or "nerd" should have among the circles of people they care about.
It's okay to strive to be the best, and you're free to have the confidence to believe you know more about a topic than others because of the effort you put into making it your business to know more. But don't think you're better than others just because you know something they do not. And do not hide knowledge from would-be elitist nerds to ensure your supremacy over them. Your goal should always be to inspire others to be interested in the topic you dedicated yourself in and educate them to be as well informed as you are on the facts, while respecting their current opinion.
Do this and maybe we will have less of the elitist nerds describe here in the world. And that's something I think we can all agree on wanting.