50th Anniversary of "I Have a Dream" Speech.

I also have a dream probably shared by many of you...a dream of a world where women are treated equally and with utter respect; a place where animals are not tortured in lab experiments and kept in torturous conditions for their milk and eggs or eventually killed for their flesh or fur. 

A planet where humans have become so evolved we've stamped out ageism, ableism, homophobia, elitism and of course racism.

An Earth where we nurture and tend to our enviroment, not destroy it and pretend there is an unlimited supply of gifts nature has to offer us.

A reality where people all have a roof over their heads and no one goes starving or hungry and free medical care is not frowned upon and is a basic human right.

A global setting where war and conflict is considered archaic and acceptance and fairness are part of the normal mind set.

A point in this blue dot's history in which governments do the right thing for their people with zero financial influence from the big corporations that make us all work harder and have less and less to show for it.

Like I said it's a dream; I will die knowing this fantasy for humanity will never come to fruition because greed and hatred have poisoned a vast majority of the movers and shakers in the international community.

To quote a young John Connor from the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day..."We're not going to make it, are we?"

Nouveau Nerd  

Nouveau:  French - New.  
Nerd:  A person, typically described as being overly intellectual, obsessive, or socially impaired.

This is another word I felt compelled to come up with to describe the flood of new nerd and geek writers and podcast/television/radio personalities who consistently get their facts wrong. It's okay to make mistakes from time to time that's the qualities of being human and not Vulcan, but these people head influential websites and mainstream shows that somehow set themselves up to be some sort of figurehead and "expert" on all things geek and nerdy. They're writing or fronting news articles for the benefit of their own interest demographic; you'd think they'd fact check or at least do some homework before presenting their final drafts or presentations to the world. These people tend to acquire their status as the movers and shakers of these communities via good connections in the media industry or they wriggle their way into such a position via another discipline... they're either comedians, struggling actors or writers...a good example of this is someone like Chis Hardwick who constantly makes mistakes on his Nerdist television and podcast shows. I'm sure he does have a passion for Doctor Who, Star Wars and The Walking Dead, but time and time again he has proven insufficient knowledge on the most basic of topics on these subjects. Nouveau Nerds who are thrown into the limelight often lack the humility to admit to their limits. The socially impaired aspect of their psyche become the dominant leading force. They simply want to seem smarter and more informed than they really are to gain total credibility in the geek/nerd communities. 

There is a secondary Nouveau Nerd species that has emerged from all things geek and nerd becoming cool in the eyes of society; these are the people who rarely picked up a comic book, watched any science fiction/horror television shows or movies. They had a casual interest, but not an obsessive love for the stuff they read or watched. Since it's become cool to be a geek or a nerd these people have stepped out of the shadows utilising the abundance of information available to ride the popularity wave. They are nothing more than posers who joined the assembled hordes of geeks and nerds much later in their lives. A typical Secondary Nouveau Nerd is someone who thinks what is presented to them in programs such as the Big Bang Theory which tends to portray geeks and nerds as grossely caricatured and stereotypical characters as fact. 

Nu-vian

For several years I've been using a word I came up with in my vocabulary that describes a certain type of Doctor Who fan. It's something I combined from the modern leet speak variation of 'new' now 'nu' and the recognised and established word 'Whovian' which denotes a proper Doctor Who fan.

I decided Nu-vian describes best a specific type of fan of the popular sci-fi show Doctor Who. Since Doctor Who has become more and more popular in America over the past few years there have been a growing number of people tuning into the show who are only familiar with the series from 2005 onwards...series one of Nu-Who, not season 27 or 28 depending on if you count the Paul McGann TV movie a season.  They tend to be good hearted well intentioned folk, but lack a thorough insight into the full history of the longest running science fiction series in the world and the titular character. Their knowledge is cursory which is to be expected, but the most annoying aspect of Nu-vians is that they like their Doctors young and sexy due to an infatuation with the tenth Doctor pretty boy David Tennant. I guess time will tell if Nu-vians are a fickle lot; the recent casting of the 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi will test their true love of the show since he does not fit the young pretty boy mold and is more of a throwback to the classic more mature actor in the role.