The word “geek”
(or “nerd” or “dork” or any other thing you want to say) at one time had a very
negative stigma. At one time things like reading comic books, playing video
games, or watching cartoons was reacted rather snidely to. Even at one time,
the Internet was something that was used by only the lowliest of nerds. However
over time, geeks have become the majority of earth. It just proves that we
geeks were not someone who wasn’t into the popular trends, but rather, we were
rather ahead of the popular trends.
Geek
Is No Longer a Dirty Word
Video games tend to be a huge
business, with many people dedicating hours and hours of time with developing
complex games, for people of all walks off life and those fans turning around
and playing them. The stereotypical vision of the pimple faced buck tooth gamer
with thick glasses and suspenders has been all but eliminated in the world.
Comic book movies, once known as only a curiosity, had done big business and
movies such as the Dark Knight, the X-Men Movies, Spider-Man movies, Iron Man,
and more have caused an entirely new group of comic book readers to be born.
Reading comic books is not something that basement dwellers do anymore(although
given how well Marvel and DC seems to treat their fans sometimes, you just
wonder how much they have gotten that fact).
Even the Internet, one of the
most popular forms of communication in the world, one of the widest news
networks, was once the one the most nerdy things in the world to do. Yet it has
become so mainstream it is almost scary. Of course you’ve got to take the bad
with the good, with cyber bullying, scams, viruses, spyware, malware, and the
like. So it might have been a bad thing as well as a good thing.
Of course in the end, the geeks
have won. We have really triumphed over the world of the jocks and the popular. Anyone who thinks that “geek”, “nerd”,
“dork” or whatever, is really either the most pathetic stereotypical bully or
missing the point. And perhaps deep down in denial. Embrace your inner geek.
