I'm starting to hate nerds

This is a long time coming. I am growing tired of nerds. This is also an act of self-loathing so don't go all jumping down my throat for being a hypocrite. I know I am.

I am growing sick of nerds and nerd culture and it's not because of my lack of nerdish interests. I love computers, the internet, and video games as much as the next recluse. No, I am growing to dislike nerds because of the way nerds interact with the world and their general outlook on life.

First off, things are different than they purport exactly to be. Language and reality are flexible. There are no hard and fast rules in anything. People created math to give the world hard and fast rules so they could make sense of it. This is something a lot of nerds just can't handle. There are errors, problems, and flaws in everything human beings do, say, and observe. We move forward by realizing our errors and the errors of those that came before us and working out new solutions that are most likely flawed in some other way. That is the nature of being human.

Now introduce the rest of the world to the issue.

Bringing up the fact that you can clearly see Luke miss the storm trooper with his kick or that car in Lord of the Rings or the gas tank on the bottom of the chariot in Gladiator is completely irrelevant to any conversation about anything other than movie trivia. I'm using films as an example, but you all know what I mean. I once said AMD processors had a reputation for being more sturdy when overclocked than Intel chips. A bunch of hardware nerds jumped all over me for using the word sturdy. Any idiot with a little bit of vision could tell that I meant reliable, dependable, and predictable. Perhaps Intel chips are just as sturdy as AMD chips - it doesn't matter in this context. What I'm saying is that someone took something minor and missed the point in order to point out semantics and completely missed the semiotics.

Learn semiotics, people. Meaning is an agreement between the person speaking or writing the language and those who read or hear the language. Do not be a prick about it. Learn to understand the world as a collection of adjectives and adverbs rather than categories of things. Nerds like to create categories and hierarchies of everything. Best to worst, top 10, stupid people, etc. Everyone falls under a certain label. Hipsters, slackers, geeks, emo faggots, etc. I've heard nerd kids argue the difference between nerd, geek, dweeb, doofus and dork. The conversation got heated. The difference is irrelevant. That girl will still call you whatever comes to her mind and it will still mean the same thing.

What I'm saying is be flexible. Obsessive categorization only works to hurt you. Experience things primarily and categorize them secondarily so that you can express your experiences to other people. Don't let your categories, your taxonomies, determine how you will experience the world. So many people don't try things because they have set arbitrary rules in their lives that prohibit them from experiencing before tossing something into a mental pile.

"Yuck. Why would I want to try that? I don't eat any kind of seafood/vegetable/whatever."

"Most Christians are idiots; Religion is just superstition"

"Look at that guy, he's such a hipster faggot."

The people who create the things you love are people who have vision enough to look beyond the ledger - beyond the encyclopedic and look at they gray space that remains undefined. These people can imagine what that yet unknown world, idea, or whatever is like and then use that inspiration - that conceptual experience of their vision to make it real, work it out, and explain it to those around them. Only then does it get a name and a placeholder.

So much of this life is experiential. I know it's en vogue to represent life as a series of choices that one has to make and to some extent it's true, but choices are rarely a selection of constants and there is always another option. There is no pin point solution to any problem that one encounters outside the clean lines of science. Everything we speak is myth, analogy, anecdote, and at best a dirty copy of our experiences. Remember that and understand that when you're quick to tell someone what to do.

Logic and reason do not always apply.

Judge, but judge slowly and carefully. Stretch things out and poke them and prod them until you know exactly what they'll do. Let things ebb and flow. Stop being so goddamn nerdish.

edit: NERD - A person who obsessively worries about categorization or organization in a way that significantly interferes with HIS ABILITY TO GET THE POINT YOU FUCKING NERD.