Geek Hierarchy

This is the second post in my new blog, and it seemed fitting that I introduce to you the Geek Hierarchy Chart.  A friend of mine recently pointed out that I truly had to be a geek just to know about this, and that the person who wrote it had to be an even bigger geek.  (According to the Brunching Shuttlecocks Web site, that would be Lore Sjöberg.)

This is version 2.0 of the chart.  (All praise to Lore Sjöberg for being geeky enough to have more than one version.)

For those of you in a hurry or for those of you not fully inducted into fandom/geekdom, here is the abridged version.

For the rest of us, here is the highly amusing full version.

 Aren't they wonderful?

(You can click on either image to see it larger.)

Notice that not all the arrows go down.  An upward arrow does not mean "looks up to."  It also means "looks down on."  Same for sideways arrows.  I find this highly amusing, and such a great microcosm of society at large.

It makes me wonder, say, about sports fans.  The guys who paint themselves in the colors of their team are basically doing the same thing that sci-fi geeks do when dressing in costume.  Do the other sports fans look down on the painted dudes?  Do the painted dudes look down on everyone else?

To be fair, I see much more camaraderie than anything among geeks of all types and stripes.  But yeah, there is some of this hierarchy stuff going on, a little, "Wow, that's weird," from one sub-group to another.

What about the rest of you?  What do you think of the chart?  Amusing?  True?  So true it's hilarious?