( Quote taken from the Lion King opening . )
There are thousands of villages in Africa, each one with a different culture.
There are millions of interesting geeks in the Israeli electorate alone.
There are over 40,000 distributions on CPAN .
Kurt Hugo Schneider ("KHS") uploaded over 600 videos to YouTube
Etc.
They all have enough food and the main reason they still accept monetary donations is the publicity.
But like in Michael Jackson's "They don't care about us" , they crave love, attention, self-esteem and even fame.
So I/we will always play catchup. I was also unaware of many details of my neighbourhood despite having lived here for several decades.
Nevertheless, when a friend gives you a link to a tweet, or a song, or a captioned image, or a short Sesame Street skit - don't tell him that you are now exclusively focusing on Ancient Greek philosophy. Moreover, traditional classical music concerts are the "The Emperor's New Clothes" syndrome. That is: deemed by silent consensus to be high-quality, while actually being boring and uninspiring. This was noted by Eric Raymond and exemplified by the Joshua Bell "Violinist in the Subway" experiment.
Just because you are a Python contractor, does not mean you should completely abhor XML technologies or C, or even Perl/CPAN.
I also want to attend some Satanists' conventions. I'm still a big fan of the Satans, despite them deceiving me and making me endure pain and discomfort. Moreover, I likely had an easier time than even my father's father who escaped from the Nazis from Warsaw, Poland, through the west USSR, and Iran, until settling in Tel Aviv. I have been willing to suffer a little more, if it meant that future generations will suffer much less. And as I like to say: "If I didn't want excitement in my life, then I'd go watch grass grow".
I believe most of their conventions happen at day time, and are attended by attractive MOTASes, of whom only a minority have a Goth look.
In a way, I've been doing a Hegelian dialectic of “thesis → antithesis → synthesis”. I also have been “changing ponies in midwater”: changing intermediate conclusions, while keeping similar end-results.
Furthermore, “There's more-to-life than accelerating its pace” (to quote Mahatma Gandhi-or-whoever). These past 40 years (give or take some time skews) have been a rollercoaster ride for me, and I want some rest.