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To: stylin19a
so, this basically a take-off on Gilbert’s and Lewis’s screed at the end of “revenge of the nerds” ?

I honestly don't remember the screed, but probably yes. Revenge of the nerds was one of a long line of cultural "signals" that the weird and different were the good guys and the "normal" and successful were the bad guys.

That has been the message in our culture for a while now. No wonder being "normal" is now defined as hate.

Bagster

834 posted on 06/26/2018 5:56:42 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: bagster

Bro, in the late 1970s, I sat soundly between Nerd and drug addict. I leaned towards Nerd, although the druggies had a small influence on my life.

Fast forward to now, and looking back, the “Jock/Student council” types were the high school version of the deep state. Why, they didn’t even play our class song, ‘Free Bird”, ad our commencement.


1,082 posted on 06/26/2018 9:00:48 PM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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