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On Blogging and Jewiness
My most brilliant blog friend, Esther, of MyUrbanKvetch.com, recently sent around a query for a new article about how blogging connects to one’s Jewishness. Asketh she:
How does your involvement in Jewish blogging (as a blog writer, reader or commenter) inform or expand your Jewish (or spiritual) identity?
Does it provide opportunities for you to become more connected to your Jewish (or spiritual) side, or does the anonymity of the internet create a certain sense of removal and/or disconnect?
To which I provided a long-winded response, in keeping with my often pedantic tone:
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If Nerds Ran The World
Just before I left Tel Aviv, at the Dizengoff mall, I saw one thing which gave me hope: a dozen young men, many of whom were dressed in soldier’s uniforms sitting at some tables, playing what appeared to be Magic: The Gathering
Now, I know absolutely nothing about the game. I had a roommate in college who apparently was a big fan. He had two long boxes of cards, but I never once saw him play. He kept claiming he had special, “rare” Magic cards that were worth big money, to which I said,”Yeah? So why don’t you sell them?” But he never did. See, that’s the core of nerd-dom, to value that which outside of a select group is pretty much worthless.
But why does this give me hope? Because as we well know, nerds aren’t fighters. They may play the games of warriors, but when it comes down to it, a nerd would rather reason through your differences, than kill you over them. Nerds do fight, but they fight over details.
And so, it came to me to consider what that alternative reality would be like if “nerds” were the mainstream, and the “non-nerds” on the periphery.
Thus, I give you…
Top Ten Ways Life Would Be Different if Nerds Ran The World…
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