I’d like to claim that my Spidey Sense (or at least Google Alerts) brought me to this one, but actually I have Paul DiFilippo to thank. Actually having a Google Alert on “Emerald City” wouldn’t work too well. But anyway, here is Peter Berbegal, sometime SF critic for the Boston Globe, musing on the subject of fandom. Money shot:
what I am seeing amongst geeks is a kind of righteousness due to their culture having been appropriated by mass culture
For those who love the ghetto, the only thing worse than being hated by the rest of the world is not being hated by the rest of the world.
There are those that will tell you that the for those in the ghetto, only thing worse than being hated by the rest of the world is being loved by the rest of the world ;>