Techie Bashing

My husband recently told me about something he had read somewhere - "All techies seem to have a Know it all attitude." And he totally agreed with that,with me being the Prime example! As you can imagine, I was flabbergasted, more because I had always believed that my supposed arrogant attitude stemmed from my genetically inherited Superiority Complex. Now that is something I cannot do anything about.
But his statement did get me thinking and the more I thought about it, the more convincing it sounded.

So why do techies feel like they are a species above the rest? I came up with some possible reasons :

* They have to sit in front of a computer all the time. For lack of anything else to do, they surf the internet endlessly and as a result manage to read more trivia than any normal human being should.

* They display this knowledge in various forms: blogs, forwards, emails,web sites, limited social gatherings and spam the lesser beings.

* Whats more, this information is a conglomeration of all possible view points taken off from various columns. Hey, who really has the time to recognize possible plagiarism ?

* Technology is easy to use and difficult to understand. Luckily it is their job to build technology that everyone uses and so they can go on jabbering for hours about how your home computer has a network problems.
Isn't it funny that you are stupid if you can't figure out why your computer crashed, but are not expected to know how your digestive system works ?

* If you observe a group of techies closely, you will notice that every person in the group has a lap top/ PDA / tablet which is demanding their immediate attention. The icing on the cake is their disdainful expression when interrupted!

I don't know if this is a 'guy' thing coz I am yet to see a group of Girl Geeks behave this way. Maybe in a couple of years ?

Anyways, all you techies out there..Get off your high horses. There is world waiting out there, waiting to be understood!

-Subbu