I’m not the only person to notice the fake nerd cult, but I’m pretty sure I’m the only guy calling it “fake nerdism.” The reason I call it that is the people into are fakers, frauds, posers, phonies. They also have no science. The ones on television are almost always liberal arts majors who spent their working careers play acting on TV, radio or the Interwebs. Sports has a lot of these “stats geeks” who borrow the language of statistics, but they have no idea what any of it means. The whole shebang, from Niel deGrasse Tyson to The Big Bang Theory is aimed at flattering people, who fashion themselves the smartest people in the room.

There is a cult like quality to some of it. A lot of these people, particularly the young ones, think they are part of a movement that will make this world like the imaginary one in sci-fi movies. The web site Tech Crunch seems to be one of their propaganda organs. It looks like they are also organizing a hajj for their followers this fall.

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The word “disrupt” is a buzzword borrowed from economics that is very popular in the fake nerd world. Every startup begging for money peppers its prospectus with this word. The reader is supposed to think the new company is a part of the glorious future where we all live in gleaming cities run on rainbow dust, where everyone is happy and there are no poor people. The future for these people is a sanitized San Francisco without the gays.

I’ll note the picture they use. You have two sexless people who possess that innocent, Eloi quality so popular with the fake nerd crowd. The one on the left is slightly Oriental, while the one of the right is Occidental. Maybe they are boys or maybe they are girls. We’re not supposed to know. If someone used this picture for a NAMBLA campaign, no one would be surprised. That’s the creepy part of the glorious future. It’s primary appeal seems to be to men who really like boys.