Revenge of the Nerds

Your Blogmeister’s German Desk

I have written this in shorter form both in this medium as comments and also on my social feeds from time to time.

But I want to ring my thoughts and theory all the way out, mainly for the benefit of the political archaeologists of the future who might read this in their academic efforts to make sense of the ways and events way back in the late 2010s and early 2020s.

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When I was a kid, I was something of a nerd.

I can see all of you running to find some pearls to clutch. “Naw, no way!,” I can hear you all saying in unison.

In spite of your incredulity, insert the Kurt Angle Axiom here.

And while I was teased for being that way, I was never what one would legitimately call bullied for it.

However, the teasing still got to me…