Low Self Esteem Issue 5: The Geek: An Endangered Spicies
The Geek: An Endangered Spicies
Written By Aphex Twin
May 2nd, 1996
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This Is Just A Silly Article That I've Decided To Write. I'll Be Talking About The Decrease Of Geeks In Society And How Maybe Some Day There May Be No More Geeks, And Society Will Be Run By Jocks (Oh No!!). This Is Just A Fun Article, So Don't Take It Seriously...
I Based This Article On Charles Darwin's Theory Of Unnatural Selection, I'll Start Off By Explaining Darwin's Theory. Let's Take The Giraffe As An Example, Thousands Of Years Ago There Was A Large Number Of Short Necked Giraffes And A Small Number Of Long Necked Giraffes (Freaks), It's Known That A Baby Always Resembles It's Parents, And Inheirates The Parent's Attributes, So If The Parent Giraffes Have Long Necks, The Babies Are Bound To Also Have Long Necks, This Is Called 'Heiredity'. The Short Necked Giraffes Only Had Access To Plants That Were In Their Ability Of Reach, And When There Was No More Plants In Their Level Of Reach They Would Die Of Starvation, While On The Other Hand, The Long Necked Giraffes Had A Larger Level Of Reach Due To Their Long Necks, And So They Could Access Plants That Were Located In Higher Places Where The Short Necked Giraffes Couldn't Reach, And Because Of This, The Long Necked Giraffes Would Survive Longer Then The Short Necked Giraffes. Over Time, The Long Necked Giraffes Multiplied Until Their Number Surpassed The Short Necked Giraffes, And Eventually The Short Necked Giraffe Disappeared From The Face Of The Planet.
OK, I Think That By Reading The Above Paragraph You Get A Pretty Good Idea Of How We Can Adopt This Theory To The Average Nerd. As We Know The Nerd Isn't Really Lucky With Members Of The Opposite Sex, And So Without A Mate There Can Be Be No Production Of A Baby. If A Baby Was Born It Would InHeirate The Parent's Attributes, Including Their Geekness. This Factor Of Declining Reproduction Of Nerd Babies Is Just One Factor. Another Factor Is Survival. Your Average Nerd Isn't No John Rambo, He'll Get Beaten Up Preaty Easely, And It Doesn't Take Much Effort To Kill A Nerd. The Last Factor Is That The Nerd Will Sometimes Take His Own Life Away, The Nerd Can't Deal With Society So He Chooses To Commit Suicide.
And So More And More Nerds Are Disapearing And Less Nerds Are Being Born, And So At This Rate The Nerds Might Be Extinct. Although All Is Not Lost, Nerds Have Superior Intelligences To The Jocks, But Will This Be Enough To Keep The Nerds From Disappearing From The Earth In The Future? I Guess Only Time Will Tell.
-- Aphex Twin
