Coopting The Core, Bizness As Usual

Any force that reaches a threshold of ability to make change faces this problem. Marketing to change as change.

“Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantilize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control.”

Given that Simon Pegg has spent most of his career riffing on and benefiting from “geek culture,” he got in a bit of hot water when he told Radio Times, “Nerd culture is the product of a late capit…