http://www.mormonlife.com/tag/Pop%20Culture Mormon Life - Pop Culture tag http://www.mormonlife.com/story/67401-geek-chic-and-the-mormon-moment http://www.mormonlife.com/story/67401-geek-chic-and-the-mormon-moment Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:43:00 -0700 <div> source: slate.com </div> <i class="ml_blurb">Mormon Life says: There really is something adorkable about Mormons, and now being geeky is mainstream cool.</i> Among the various figures and phenomena contributing to the so-called “Mormon moment”—Big Love, Mitt Romney, Glenn Beck, the Book of Mormon musical, Stephenie Meyer—one plausible factor has, so far as I can tell, not previously been noticed: the triumph of geek culture. <p> That geekiness has, in some sense, triumphed, does not seem to be in dispute. The term “geek chic” became common in the 1990s; USA Today, not generally on the forefront of such things, used the term as a headline for a piece about how geeks have “pulled ahead of the rest of us” in 2003. In December 2010, Patton Oswalt published a much discussed piece in Wired (covering all things nerdy since 1993) arguing that geek culture had succeeded so totally as to become worthless.</p>