Multiclassing: Family and Geek ~ Tutelage

Photo credit: Jedi Archivist Kethrim

Top 3 days of my life:

1.) The day my son was born.

2.) The day BEFORE The Phantom Menace

3.) The day my wife used the world “teleport” in a perfectly legitimate sentence in the company of many non-geeks.

Seriously, without any actual force or structure, my darling missus has been Nerd-Adjacent long enough that she’s been assimilated into the collective. Granted, she’s a  draftee who’s more likely to shoot herself in the foot with a MasterReplica Bowcaster than to willingly participate in any kind of geek activity, but her eternal love and devotion for me (mwahaha) has lowered her defenses and allowed me to deliver the victorious final blow!

Or quite possibly she’s just glazed over and is biding her time until a more manly man comes along…either way I call it a ‘win’.

We’ve all experienced something similar, with the internet being the necessity it is and content being SO accessible.  Nerd culture is expanding at an alarming rate. The highest grossing film of all time is about blue aliens controlled by advanced humans and their technology. Twitter CONSTANTLY has the scoop before national news organizations.  Podcasts and satellites are quickly diminishing the need for terrestrial radio.  Let’s not forget the fact that a science fiction show like LOST or Battlestar Galactica can get so much critical acclaim, or that Big Bang Theory can spark such devotion is strictly amazing.

We got it, Jason…what’s the point?

I’m glad you asked…the point is that this world is working tirelessly to make it easier and easier for me to raise Xander (see best-day-ever #1) to be the kind of smart, social, and GEEKY person that I was unable to be.  I have an opportunity to teach my child all the nerdliness that I had to learn late in life, to show him he can be proud of his interests no matter what they are.  I can expose him to the Star Wars saga in any order I see fit, and perhaps most importantly, I can enlighten him as to the proper order of awesomeness regarding Star Trek captains (more on that another time).

The simple fact that it’s becoming more an more acceptable…nay!…COOL to be a nerd gives me hope for the future of my children. Fear not, my brethren! We shall indeed hold true the path of greatness! And to all you non-geeks who are inexplicably reading this… Resistance is Futile.