Eh, this article really touches on nothing new and if I bothered I could find many others like in in the past X00 years based on people that dive head first into things and make it their lives. "I don't want to be 'religious fanatic group' person" , "I don't want to be 'music trend people", ad infinitum. It turns out that people that tend to focus on one subsection of culture are not well rounded and generally boring superficial people. Nothing about this has to do with the 'internet', it's just that HN is eating it up because the word internet is in it and many of us have a strange magical reverence to it.