I’m a geek who is fascinated by geeks, their ascending (I believe, though many would dispute this) role in the modern world, and whether geeks are ‘better’ moral beings than non geeks (call them jocks, if you like). The topic of geeks is not one easy to pursue tangentially, so not much thinking has occurred on the subject in the last couple of years.
Well, Stefan Sirucek has written an engaging, positive review in Huffington Post of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf, exploring the world of gaming. Despite knowing that geekdom isn’t synonymous with gaming (I don’t game, though I used to and sometimes miss it), this can be my 2010 book to revive musing about the sociology of the group I identify with.