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May 21, 2015 05:48 am PDT
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Simon Pegg discusses geek culture and the infantilization ofsociety
Given that Simon Pegg has spent most of his career riffing on and benefiting from geek culture, he got in a bit of hot water when he told Radio Times, Nerd culture is the product of a late capitalist conspiracy, designed to infantilize the consumer as a means of non-aggressive control. Read the rest
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