Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals

Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals

What happened

The Fellowship of the Rings premiered in 2001.
Paul Graham, one of the founders of Y Combinator, compares himself and Y Combinator to JRR Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' in that it invented the genre.
Y Combinator is described as the most successful startup incubator in the world.
Y Combinator and Peter Thiel are entities funding companies with Tolkien mythology-based names.
According to Financial Times thesis, being a nerd has acquired cultural cachet in large part because of nerd spending power on cultural products.
Tech companies outperformed the S&P 500 for the last thirty years.
René Girard's theory of mimetic desire states: 'Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind.'

Y Combinator is described as the most successful startup incubator in the world.
Tech companies outperformed the S&P 500 for the last thirty years. (30)