I actually observe the opposite effect, in our local region. Our local festivals are increasingly both more-traditional and with more engineer/scientist/technologist overrepresentation. Same thing at church.
It's increasingly really laptops-n-lederhosen because everyone else has sort of mentally checked-out.
I see that on Nostr, too, really.
Like, massive Christian overrepresentation, among the more prominent npubs.
Same with Bitcoin.
Although, I'm in the Catholic part of Bavaria, so that's a big cultural difference.
Actually, nostr:npub1995y964wmxl94crx3ksfley24szjr390skdd237ex9z7ttp5c9lqld8vtf , now that I think of it, I'm probably seeing the same effect. It's just that computer nerds, religious nerds, rural nerds, political nerds, dietary nerds, etc. have more incentive to meet up and organize. And, since nerds are a type of personality, rather than a particular topic, those nerds can occupy multiple nerd-spheres.
I was actually thinking about this, yesterday, as we sat down with the CSU guys from our village and I noticed that the four tables they used to occupy are now two tables and everyone was our age or younger and most of them are engineers or into techy stuff as side-gigs or hobbies. And our daughters are all into vegan cooking, apparently. 😂
Nerds are taking over what is left of society, seems like.
