THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on December 21, 2007, 02:37:51 PM
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I'm working on a sort of informal research project on how the continued adult obsession with HS nerd/jock divide and associated pathologies involving dating etc are symptomatic and indicative of deeper problems with American culture. Obviously for my thesis to work things need to be at least somewhat different in Europe so I'm wondering if anyone has any insight into how things are there. Not talking about basic shyness or social awkwardness but stuff like persecution complexes, passive-aggressive behavior, (both sides') obsession with so-called "confidence" etc.
I'm just talking about Western Europe here, please don't inject anything about unsuccessful Western men supposedly going to Eastern Europe to take advantage of sexism and economic desperation etc. Also not really interested in the UK which seems basically American in the underlying cultural aspects that count here.
If I do ever write this essay, it'll be pretty cool. Lots of nifty connections to philosophy, politics, history, Marxist theory, even mathematics and computer science.
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sounds interesting and fir sure a topic i am interested in.
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we call the continued obsession with the "nerd/jock divide" LIBERTARIANISM
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the assumption that a few thousand holds for many is statistically valid, actually
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Are you brocke?
I don't want to tear apart your original post but there is much wrong with what you posted in the first post, mostly the assumption that a few thousand represents tens of millions of people.
Also, if you believe the nerd/jock divide, the paper is doomed for total failure.
It's still the 80's don't hate! :maf Also if I compose a score in Locrian to go along with your paper will you send me some pubes? :-*
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hey, i hate nerds! women prefer their high iqs to our great big cocks, as the pi delts so charmingly sang!
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Are you brocke?
I don't want to tear apart your original post but there is much wrong with what you posted in the first post, mostly the assumption that a few thousand represents tens of millions of people.
Also, if you believe the nerd/jock divide, the paper is doomed for total failure.
I'm not brocke, although as it happens he's been taking college classes with a friend of mine so we're separated by just two irl degrees. Apart-tear away if you've the time, but understand there's a layer of meta in there that may not have come through properly due to my being too lazy and verbally challenged to write worth shit: I'm not myself obsessed with the nerd/jock divide --- ok, I am but only on an irrational emotional level; intellectually I am meta-obsessed with the obsession with the nerd/jock divide.
Lots of people, maybe most people, are still stuck in the 80s/90s. I agree that a new era is past due to dawn, I'm hoping to help bring that about.
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virginity :rock
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virginity :rock
I guess you're still a virgin towards women if you've only slept with men right?
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loopholes :rock
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What I'm discussing isn't so much the HS NJD itself but its popular image. That image is strong enough to infect people whose personal experience doesn't support or even contradicts it, and influence their adult behavior. (maybe that's how I should start my essay. "A spectre is haunting the Anglosphere: the spectre of Nerdjockism") I myself am a pretty good anecdotal example of this since I never even went to high school except for a calculus class I took when I was twelve, yet I'm obviously (irrationally) obsessed with the HS NJD (and intellectually obsessed with the obsession with the HS NJD).
Even if a it's relatively small segment of the population that's affected, that segment is disproportionately represented in computer science and among software developers and IT workers. In turn these areas have a disproportionate effect on society as a whole as we become increasingly economically and socially dependent on software. (or even if not, I'm personally really only interested in CS and software and IT so the rest of society can go take a hike anyway)
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I'm just warming up. I'll revolutionize the neologism industry before I'm through.
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I just watched Freaks and Geeks, and was going to make a thread asking if it conformed at all to anyone's HS experience.
Which would have been a much more accessible thread than this, lemme tell ya.