11.08.2010

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The age of the Everygeek

The United States — incurious, self-absorbed and nervous — is going through one of its phases, a period in which an aggressive anti-intellectual spirit has taken hold. But CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, one of TV’s most popular shows, is a success that runs contrary to the new dumbing down. For Virginia Postrel of The Wall Street Journal, it’s because the show’s uber-nerds are “a new kind of Everyman — representatives of a culture in which nobody's normal.”

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