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We’re still behaving like the rebel alliance, but now we’re the Empire.

Pete Warden on why nerd culture must die:

And that’s where the problem lies. We’re still behaving like the rebel alliance, but now we’re the Empire. We got where we are by ignoring outsiders and believing in ourselves even when nobody else would. The decades have proved that our way was largely right and the critics were wrong, so our habit of not listening has become deeply entrenched.

# October 10, 2014

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