05.11.11
Geeks, not high school boot-lickers and cheerleaders, more adaptable in America (cue laugh line)
Today’s general news story, purpose-made to be as annoying as possible:
“Why geeks make better adults than the in-crowd”
It is for the pimping of a new book, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth, by someone named Alexandra Robbins.
By now you’re wondering if it took longer than five minutes of brain-storming to come up with the title. Or the remarkable conclusion that Steve Jobs was a … geek!
“Yahoo! [is a company]—that prioritize hiring quirky individuals who shun conventional thinking,” reads the story, fresh from Yahoo’s corporate news organ, without a trace of self-consciousness.
“Schools can empower an atmosphere of inclusion, Robbins says, by mandating assigned seating in the cafeteria at least once a month, and by providing loose chairs so that people can move from table to table instead of being forced to choose and commit to a clique,” it reads.
That’ll fix shit, for sure.