>>55613
>February, 2003
Bitch, you most likely weren't even born at the time, nor the majority of furries today.
But I did read it all, it was quite an interesting read. Although unfortunately for you, it does not prove you right in the slightest.
It explicitly says that nerds are out of place in school, because they think and act like they were in the real world, but school isn't like the real world at all. All those petty high school dramas and all that "hard work" to become popular will eventually turn out to be fruitless, and the nerds will have the advantage.
Yeah. But that was in two-thousand-motherfucking-three, almost fifteen years ago. There were no Facebook, no Twitter, no Youtube and no iPhones back then. Internet was a thing for nerds.
Come 2007, internet is now the biggest thing in the world. Social media and smart phones are flooding the world. Celebrities, big companies and newspapers all use the internet now. Internet was a thing for nerds, internet is now cool, so being a nerd is now cool. Or at least, pretending to be a nerd is cool. Real nerds distance themselves from what they perceive as a vapid exercise in pretending to be something you are not (which it is), so the rest are free to turn the internet, and in turn, the real world, into a giant high school.
My favorite quotes:
>I think the important thing about the real world is not that it's populated by adults, but that it's very large, and the things you do have real effects. That's what school, prison, and ladies-who-lunch all lack. The inhabitants of all those worlds are trapped in little bubbles where nothing they do can have more than a local effect. Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery. They have no function for their form to follow.
>We have a phrase to describe what happens when rankings have to be created without any meaningful criteria. We say that the situation degenerates into a popularity contest.
This is what the entire world has become.
This explains popufurs, youtubers, tumblrinas, everyone.
With the age of the average internet user being in a constant nose dive, it's gonna be progressively worse. The real world now depends on the internet and the internet became a giant, world-wide high school, filled with underage kids, ran by underage kids. So what do you get? Vapid attention whores climb to the top of the food chain. People pretend to be experts and other people believe them and give them (lots of) money for it. Real experts instead are too busy being real experts to be attention whores. The nerds have sunk to the bottom of the pile once again.
What the nerds could count two decades ago, which was the fact that they would've been at an advantage in the real world and would've been guaranteed security and well-being (which, at the end of the day simply meant $$MONEY$$), has now been taken from them.
So, in a way, you were right, but not in the way you thought you were.
I can't wait for the nukes to drop and cleanse this world.