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This part:

Nerd” culture isn’t about being niche or interesting anymore, but a façade for complacency: a failure to challenge the self, opting instead to indulge the “comfort view” and adaptations and nostalgia, all dog whistles for you’re not thinking that deeply. This doesn’t mean you or I or all or any of us are dumb, but instead that we’re desiring the bare minimum in our lives as far as culture and entertainment.

So on-point.

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~ thank you ~ been meaning to write about this for a bit as...it's almost all of culture at this point 😭

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