"It is natural for those of limited intellect to hate and be distrustful of those who show themselves to be smarter, more successful or more capable"
That's laughable. You don't even know that I qualify for Mensa, and that Rotary International has asked me aboard based on one chance face-to-face meeting in a parking lot.
Maybe it's that I have more PRACTICAL knowledge instead of dreaming about physical anomolies and the like.
'Hence the popularity of "soak the wealthy" tax schemes and the time-honored physical abuse of "nerds."'
Two things here: I was one of those "nerds" and yet I hold as much contempt for arrogant football players as I do for intellectual wanna-bes.
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The abuse of "nerds" should be taken as a way of letting the nerd know they need to get associated with the real world. They either take the hint and interact with others, or they lock themselves up and have wet dreams about Stephen Hawking.
Socrates once noted that the only way to finding the Truth is through interaction with others, not in simply one's own mind.
Mensa is for flyweights.
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/hoeflin.html
I must say it's not apparent from examples of your reasoning on these threads.