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In today's world, ignorance seems to be the 'in' thing. Anyone with the least bit of common sense is labelled as "oversmart". And heaven help the poor soul who likes to learn and takes an interest in stuff apart from the regular subjects forced upon him by the education system. "Geek"..."nerd"..."genius" (in a highly sarcastic way of course)...and more specific labels are created as and when required.

Why is it that in the current scenario, knowledge is knowing the release dates of all of next month's movies and a well read person is one who can recall every last detail published in today's page 3?

Why is it that failing in class is the ultimate in "cool". You try and fail...no problem...but honestly, there are plenty who dont try simply because it will spoil their image and coolness and popularity (and stupidity).

And next on the endangered list is intelligent conversation. Its almost extinct and if one were to use words of more than two syllables, one is greeted with blank faces. I could have been speaking latin with the same effect!

The fact remains that actually i am an ignoramus.

I am not a nerd...youre just stupid. :-P