Sing, goddess, the wrath of Nerd’s son Nerkle

Perhaps Seersucker would be more apposite. Yet still we know Nerd and very few could tell where Ka-Too is and why that might be of interest to ‘jocks’ dismissing with merciless surprise. Either way, one word has triumphed over the others to become synonymous with brilliance after the age of 18 and spotty spectacles before. As a side note, this is most likely because excelling at everything other than sport is more likely to be useful later in life, so a change happens after the mythological experience of school. Education is not fairy tale though.

So what should the Nerd do? Well a Nerkle, as that is the less pejorative term, must set upon an odyssey that leads to a metamorphosis and be like Daphne to take on the looks of a laurel tree. Maybe that would be a pair of jeans or just a modicum of laser eye correction, but either way it would no doubt smooth the transition. Thus is the metamorphosis complete. Not overnight because that can cause some surprise, but over 18 year or so.

For most, the emergence of democracy and law would seem to have been as dramatic as the experiences of Gregor Samsa and our good Nerkel. But just as America is not eternally young, the constitution is a quarter of millennium old by now, stability of law has emerged through thousands of iterations. It is the product of experience. Enlightenment that now arouses no surprise amongst us. As normal as if a man had turned into a fly and gone to work. Although if we ignore any transitions or developments is there a chance that our diptera of laws will simply lose the will to live and die? Look to the fly or else we will not feel a burden being lifted when they are well on their way to Ka-Too.

Beware uneasy dreams and the inevitable awakening.