Nerds are no better or worse than other people. Dump massive money and power into an industry and you will get unhinged shit like this that bubbles to the surface.

Some of it is the mask falling off and some of it is people genuinely getting warped by it. It’s a little of both.

In finance it’s covered over by a buttoned down ivy league veneer, but the coke snorting maniac is there.

Same in politics where there’s pomp and ceremony to cover it, but when it comes out in the open there it’s probably the most ugly. Governments have armies and police.

In nerd-dom it comes in a form that’s uniquely tone deaf to the point of coming off like a comic book or anime villain.