#золотой_фонд_мастридов #полит_мастрид
Вам знакомо чувство, когда вы наткнулись на абсолютный мастрид, запоем его прочитали, решили обязательно показать его друзьям, а потом забыли? С сегодняшним мастридом вышла именно такая история: впервые я его прочёл год назад, а недавно снова случайно наткнулся.
"We live in an age of nerds.
Sometimes I try to explain to my kids that I grew up in a time — a dark age known as The Eighties — when reading comic books, playing fantasy-based card games, watching Doctor Who, or being really into computers could get you publicly pantsed. There was a clear social hierarchy, and the way it worked, for boys at least, was that the nerds —the kids who had weird, obscure obsessions, who knew everything about something nobody else knew anything about — were at the bottom. At the top were "jocks," the meatheads who were good at sports and knew where to get beer and had pretty girlfriends.
My kids have no idea what the hell I'm talking about. The coolest kids they know are nerds. Their heroes are nerds. Their favorite billionaires are nerds. Nerds are the ones making the best movies and apps and Vine channels (that's a thing, right?), the ones inventing stuff that changes the world. The archetypes in all those '80s teen movies mean nothing to my children. These days, nerds run the world.
But while nerds have taken over pop culture and technology, there's one area they haven't mastered: politics."
После этого пассажа автор проводит вивисекцию современной американской политической системы и стереотипов, от которых современная прогрессивная молодёжь (например, Тим Урбан из Wait But Why) никак не может избавиться. Возможно, это самый глубокий (и при этом провокационный и захватывающий) текст об американской политике, который вы читали. Для российских реалий некоторые вещи тоже вполне применимы. Enjoy.
