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| Geek sensibilities, earlier today |
Geeks are, of course, the sub-set of nerds who can realistically be hired and set to work with normal people.
Also, apparently, the geeks are going to inherit the Earth—I'm expecting to receive the paperwork any day now.
In the meantime, it would be wrong to say that geek sensibilities were 'special' and that people "just don't get us"—or rather it would be true, but no more than it is for everybody else. Everybody has their own desires, wishes, aesthetics; and everybody thinks they're not appreciated, and everyone thinks nobody understands.
Obviously some industries run almost entirely on geek power, and sometimes non-geeks take the credit. This happens when 'leaders' do not realise their role in the process. They imagine they have 'vision', 'drive' and 'clarity'; when what they really provide is 'naivety', 'stubbornness' and 'blind luck'.
Be all that as it may, one day the geeks may decide they've had enough, and then...
A slightly drunken message from the geeks
Be not afraid, for though we are much cleverer than you,
although rogues are a proper subset of thieves
and liars a superset of leaders
I have enumerated them all
(appendix A). Good day
if you are reading this message then we are missing
presumed... well this is the question
to be, have been, be being
and yet to not be present at the desks,
terminals and laboratory benches
where previously we lived.
Yes, we were paid.
No, that was never the point
and basically the point,
the point is that you never understood
the beauty of a well-crafted subroutine,
gear train, enzymatic inhibition feedback loop
which was all we ever wanted. So...
if you turn your questioning eye
to somewhere on a cloudless night
in Autumn and the direction
of the galaxy's core you will find
a tiny point of light red-shifted
almost into nothing. And that's us. Cleverer.
