In an article in The Washington Post about the new magazine Make (which calls itself "the first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and D.I.Y. inspiration"), writer Peter Carlson takes the opportunity to bash its readership as "gloriously immature"... that is, after deriding them as "geeks, gearheads, hackers, do-it-yourselfers and other folks" (with that snide "other folks" presumably a catchall for everyone else besides geeks and gearheads Carlson finds tiresome and/or offensive).
These "folks" suffer from some other serious problems beside being interested in something besides football or the latest bread-and-circuses reality show:
Many of Make's projects are extremely difficult to execute and require a lot of skill and hours of work. The great American word "E-Z" is apparently not in Make's vocabulary...
Gee, these people have attention spans? Brains? What is this nation coming to?
And what sort of "gloriously immature" things are these "folks" up to? Well, the latest "MakeShift Challenge" ("applying creativity to solve an important global problem, and educating others as to how it can be done") invited readers to come up with a way to make contaminated water potable through the creative use of local materials that might be found in a remote rural village. Sheesh: how much nerdier can you get?
