Geekiness can be defined as a willingness and a zeal for engaging with things abstractly and programmatically.

FORBES: Learn To Code #2: The Many Reasons Why We Must Program (And The Few Why Not)

Put abstractly, government may be called on to foster or restore equal liberty.

ECONOMIST: Liberalism

In another study, participants who were induced to think more abstractly about political issues became more moderate than they were originally.

FORBES: Think Negative, Think Certain

Not just chattering about it abstractly, but planning for it.

FORBES: A Professional Preps for the End of QE

Even leaving aside the nasty suggestiveness of the whole thing, there remains the irreconcilable contradiction between the crude realism of real machinery (of American make) combined with an abstractly treated figure.

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