>"Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control." - Simon Pegg
>"I don't think they are making [comic book movies] an elevated art form, I think it's still just Batman running around in a stupid cape.. It's for kids, it's adolescent in its core. " - David Cronenberg
>"I don't want to see or make films about super heroes that fly around in spandex and a cape solving the problems of the world. I think it's fine for children, children of all ages by the way, but it's not for me." - William Friedkin
>“They have been poison, this cultural genocide, Because the audience is so overexposed to plot and explosions and shit that doesn’t mean nothing about the experience of being human.” - Alejandro Iñárritu
>"Superman makes me vomit, Batman and all of that. That whole empire... this religion... It is so important that superheroes suffer... I don't give a damn, I shit on the United States." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
>The most escapist work of cultural production out there I hesitate to call it art — the most escapist thing out there at the moment is The West Wing. This invidious, disgusting program that allows American liberals to think if one of theirs who is well-educated enough, and a good, decent man, gets into power, that he will wring his hands and shed a tear when he orders the bombers over Sudan; this somehow represents an alternative world. This is the most rank, disgusting, reactionary, utopian drivel I have ever seen. And I would defend Tolkien over it a thousand times. But with their categories they can’t understand that as escapist; in fact they think it’s tremendously political. - China Miéville
>"To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th century inception seems to indicate a retreat from the admittedly overwhelming complexities of modern existence" - Alan Moore
>calls other people uncultured nerds >spends 90% of his free time posting pictures of frogs on a children's website
Blake Smith
>"Film as art culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to intellectually masturbate the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control" - Simon Pegg
>"A sweet-faced boy of twelve told me proudly that he had seen 2001: A Space Odyssey over a hundred times. I said, 'do you think you could promise never to see 2001 again?' He burst into tears. I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand faux-intelligencia banalities" - Alec Guinness
>"I don't think they are making [art films] as elevated art form, I think it's still just a French guy smoking a cigarette with a Noir filter around his stupid depressed face... It's for quasi-intellectuals, it's adolescent in its core." - David Cronenberg
>"I don't want to see or make films about a guy and his dog where nothing actually happens as some kind of metaphor for the pointlessness of life. I think it's fine for people who want to pretend to be smart, those of all ages by the way, but it's not for me." - Alejandro Iñárritu
>"They have been poisoned, this culture genocide, Because the audience is so overexposed to pointless camera work and terrible religious metaphors and shit that doesn't mean nothing about the experience of a simple story." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Films are for entertainment, not for pretending you're cultured, idiots. Read a book.
Oliver King
Simon Pegg knows what (((they're))) up to
Liam Carter
t. commie
Gabriel Davis
>>The most escapist work of cultural production out there I hesitate to call it art — the most escapist thing out there at the moment is The West Wing. This invidious, disgusting program that allows American liberals to think if one of theirs who is well-educated enough, and a good, decent man, gets into power, that he will wring his hands and shed a tear when he orders the bombers over Sudan; this somehow represents an alternative world. This is the most rank, disgusting, reactionary, utopian drivel I have ever seen. And I would defend Tolkien over it a thousand times. But with their categories they can’t understand that as escapist; in fact they think it’s tremendously political.
hahaha this so fucking much. Literally straight after Trump won, everyone on my facebook and shit were crying and started binging the West Wing and you still see liberals bringing it up almost daily about it being "sane rational governance" compared to Trump.
I'm not even right wing or a Trump supporter, but it's amazing the impact The West Wing has had on liberal delusion. That and fucking Harry Potter.
Matthew Lee
What do all these people have in common(aside from maybe China Melville, no idea who that is, probably some irrelevant hack though)? They all profited from "nerd culture".
Eli Morris
>inb4 some capeshitter replies with ad hominems
Jordan Fisher
Famous science fiction author. Won a bunch of Arthur C Clark and Hugo awards.
Juan Young
Blame the film studios
Daniel Watson
Jodorowsky was a hack who used his movies as an excuse to rape women. Why would i listen to him about the integrity of filmmaking?
Blake Walker
>China Tom Miéville FRSL (/ˈtʃaJnə miˈeJvəl/; born 6 September 1972) is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer >fantasy fiction author, comic writer So essentially a capeshit writer and definitely profited from nerd culture as well.
Noah Thomas
It’s because they are stupid and don’t understand politics, they need it to come prepackaged like House of Cards or West Wing, and of course those shows don’t represent reality
It’s also how they consume their news. A new tax bill just got passed? Ummm CNN read it for me and tell me what to think thanks. And their rebellion, all this talk about being against the machine and they shit all over the one guy who actually isn’t the machine
Gabriel Torres
>I shit on the United States We all do
Liam James
Is super hero shit even that prevalent among adults? I feel like it is still mostly a kid thing. Also it's not much worse than watching a Disney or pixar movie.
>The pantheon of modern Liberal Media (not be confused with its determiner-equipped cousin) is vast; besides the obvious entries of nearly any television show featuring a woman or PoC protagonist, one can find followers of Literally Any Genre Program, which invariably is woke because it is possible to Read main characters as secretly being gay for each other in extremely specific ways where the Succession of Muhammmed is paper or plastic compared to the vitriol surrounding whose imaginary penis goes where.
>Yet there are higher orders of media beyond this. In the realm of fantasy, there is Harry Potter, which despite its attenuated "racism is bad" message and complete lack of otherwise traditionally discernible politics has become a lingua franca among liberal-millenial discussions of politics; Donald Trump is not now an idiot exemplar of the excesses of capitalism or anything else, but rather a bad snake wizard. We also have Game of Thrones and its Khaleesi, inbred murderous hereditary monarch yet shibboleth of liberal discussion, as a result of her freeing pretend slaves (which, admittedly, is more liberal than her analogue holding real ones.) Exemplar headline: "Jessica Chastain Wins Hillary Clinton Memes with Daenerys and Dragon."
and it goes on, good article about this.
Isaiah Roberts
Is the joke that all of the quotes are slightly off?
Hudson Fisher
>Alejandro Jodorowsky He hates Superman (for not having a big penis or erection) and Transformers (cause robots have no soul), but actually likes Marvel. True story.
Isaac Bailey
back to neofag
James Reed
House of cards may be dramaticized by Hollywood to a good extent but politics really is a shit world. All you have to do is look at the crazy hit pieces they do on eachother constantly, that shit is a bloodbath and it's for shitty ass sycophants. There is definitely some truth in some shit like HoC.
Parker Butler
>Jodorowsky was a hack who used his movies as an excuse to rape women Woman exist to be loved and not raped
Kayden Perry
back to pakistan you rapist
Adam Young
China Mieville is a trozkyst. Thought you might be interested
Andrew Jenkins
Simon Peggy woke af bruh
Parker Russell
>"Baneposting is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control." - Simon Pegg
>"I don't think they are making [memes] an elevated art form, I think it's still just CIA flying around in a stupid plane.. It's for kids, it's adolescent in its core. " - David Cronenberg
>"I don't want to see or make films about CIA agents that fly around in planes with a flightplan catching the big guys of the world. I think it's fine for children, children of all ages by the way, but it's not for me." - William Friedkin
>“They have been poison, this cultural genocide, Because the audience is so overexposed to flight plans and blood transfusions and shit that doesn’t mean nothing about the experience of cooking sea bass.” - Alejandro Iñárritu
>"CIA makes me vomit, Masketta Man and all of that. That whole empire... this religion... It is so important that hotheads suffer... I don't give a damn, I shit on the CIA." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
>The most escapist work of cultural production out there I hesitate to call it art — the most escapist thing out there at the moment is Baneposting. This invidious, disgusting program that allows American liberals to think if one of theirs who is well-educated enough, and a good, decent man, gets into the CIA, that he will wring his hands and shed a tear when he orders Maimen to get them on board; this somehow represents an alternative world. This is the most rank, disgusting, reactionary, utopian drivel I have ever seen. And I would defend the opening scene of TDK over it a thousand times. But with their categories they can’t understand that as escapist; in fact they think it’s tremendously big, for them. - China Miéville
>"To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their early-21st century inception seems to indicate a retreat from the admittedly overwhelming complexities of being big" - Alan Moore
Lincoln Ward
IT becomes one of the biggest and richest industries Nerd culture blossoms /thread
Lucas Brooks
None of that now bud
Ian Parker
based Jodorowsky
Hudson Garcia
Every sub-culture with any kind of creativity gets exploited eventually. It happened to black culture, gay culture, nerd culture, there's no such thing as female culture so they just try to vaginawash over other things like making all female remakes of things.
Eli Kelly
ive missed u. now more than ever u re needed
Gavin Smith
The article is good but considering the writer freely admits to being a lioberal i'm wary of their intentions
Hudson White
Faggots "Waaaaaa im a big boy now, Mamma. I want more grown up stuff for my storytime. Now go make me some milk n cookies!"
Brandon Murphy
*freely admits to being a socialist
Kayden Mitchell
Should replace the Mieville quote with something else.
Henry Watson
Underrated
Anthony King
Wew lad
Leo Bell
Finally a brain on Sup Forums
Bentley Gutierrez
God I hate the kikes, they've made criticism of their motives and acts impossible, forcing men like Pegg to mask their wording.
Jonathan Perry
>Simon Pegg
Isn't that the guy who was in Mission Impossible and a bunch of Star Tr*ck?
Real enlightened fella...
Cooper Evans
>A sweet-faced boy of twelve you just know
Carson Watson
Alec Guiness said that about Star Wars.
Charles Foster
Nice article
Jason Nguyen
>"Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantalize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control."
Good thing we're filthy autists and not "geeks" then.
"Geek" and "Nerd" are pre-packaged corporate consumer identities now. Autists are what people call OG Geeks and Nerds who care too much about silly things like Star Wars and Games and their hobbies. But the thing about autists, that while they can be baited, they can't be controlled. That's why they were labelled "deplorables" too. Autists fight back against entryism, fake geeks and "Greetings, fellow nerds!" exploiters. Then they pursued that fight into the political arena, seeking to destroy the root cause.
Pegg is faggot cuck. He was always a fake geek, elite wannabe. He has willingly let cornerstone geek franchises go undefended in Hollywood, on TV and online during the worst attacks the communities have ever seen upon their "outsider" identity.
Aiden Young
He's a kike front-man.
Christian Garcia
The blending of the nomenclature always bugged me. Geeks are the realm of obsession, memorizing inane facts and shit. Nerds are in the realm of function, they memorize facts but its so they can do stuff like code or mess with electronics. Comicbook guy = geek Professor Fink = nerd
Grayson Adams
Holy shit, my pasta actually got reposted. Thanks user.
Evan Cook
"Nerd Culture Profiteers"
I like it.
Adrian Butler
never heard anybody say geek or nerd irl desu
Grayson Young
>Read a book.
Books are worse. People hold them up in higher respect than video entertainment. However, books are just as bad with propaganda and infantilism. Most books read like internet fan fiction and blog posts. They are just better edited.