To put it succinctly: geekdom is a precious state of mind, and it must be protected from forces that would hijack it for their own selfish interests. For a mind to develop sensitivity to difficult and challenging intellectual pursuits, a serene environment amenable to focus is necessary. Enthusiasm is the driving force behind the pursuit of knowledge. The cultivation of a geek therefore requires supportive structures, a positive outlook regarding the challenge presented to a problem, and the direction of the pursuit towards helpful applications. Because such an environment must be constructed and does not occur spontaneously in nature, geekdom has a stake in setting up the default parameters for this environment. It ought to be a moral environment, so that the fruits of the labors of the geek become net positives for humanity.
“Culture” is the set of actions that a society facilitates in order to make moral actions easy. If it is easier to invite your friends out for ice cream than it is to mug a passerby, then people will tend to do so.
There are insidious forces rampant in our culture that seek to claim a piece of geekdom in order to insert themselves in the environment of geeks everywhere. Having done so, their flawed premises and selfish goals slowly take hold. Before long, the geek finds oneself agreeing with the most horrendous premises simply because other so-called “geeks” that they know have espoused harmful ideologies, echoed them into the environment, and subliminally biased the geek to ruin. It’s often easier to go along with the crowd than to fight the premise.
Long ago now, the most powerful example of this was, of course, the HBO television series “Sex and the City.” Who doesn’t like beautiful women? But when female characters are written by men to act like men, as they were in this show, then women who don’t know the truth about the show-writers will act like men — to the detriment of the real women, and the real men who would otherwise be in a healthy relationship with them. For to what else does a thoughtful man aspire if not the love of a graceful, elegant, and capable woman? And what destruction is certain to befall a man who mistakes lewdness, garishness, and ruthlessness for that other beauty?
In the modern day, “Star Wars: The Acolyte” is a perfect example of a media trend that takes a beloved franchise (namely, the first three Star Wars movies) and inserts notions of hideous and abusive female power into it, rather than healthy partnerships with men as part of a broader social construct. Such misadventures damage the culture and salt the earth of geekdom so that nothing may grow thence.
This blog aims to foster and preserve the orderly society in which the cultural world flourished, throughout time and especially now. As our Creator ordained and transmitted through the Seven Noahide Laws, human beings have a responsibility to make this world a better place and to make laws to this end. May it be pleasing to the Creator that this writing help contribute to the day when we no longer know war, and that the efforts of geeks bring us to peace — not to find ways to use the power revealed by the explorations of the intellect for the accumulation of more power, but rather to re-direct those energies and drives of adventure, and to apply the understanding of the Creator’s ways towards exploring the universe in peace.