Someone at Amazon has a "How to be Pretentious" list of books. I qualify for Mensa, and because my father and grandfather were members (my father only briefly), I went to some get-togethers. Some very self-involved people. I decided to deliberately not join the group, because I never wanted to be the kind of person who is only tolerable within that narrow group, and insufferable to EVERYBODY else.
There is so, so much I don't know and will never know. I was blessed with a decent brain (and cursed with it, too...depression, anxiety, shyness, etc.). But I value a firefighter more than a professor by default, whatever his IQ or 'credentials'. That's the conservative in me. I'm still somewhat amazed at how many really smart conservatives there are at FR. I guess I bought the liberal party line for too long, that smart people were liberal (and conversely, average and not-so-smart people were conservative).