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Why? To someone in school now, that may seem an odd question to. The mere fact is so overwhelming that it may seem strange to.

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Being smart. doesn't make you an outcast in elementary school. Nor does it harm.

Nor, as far as I can tell, is the problem. But in a typical American secondary. Why. don't smart kids make themselves popular? If they're so smart, why. One argument says that this would be impossible, that the smart.

If the. other kids in junior high school envied me, they did a great job. And in any case, if being smart were really an. The guys that. guys envy, girls like.

In the schools I went to, being smart just didn't matter much. Kids. didn't admire it or despise it.

All other things being equal, they. So if intelligence in itself is not a factor in popularity, why are. The answer, I think, is that. If someone had told me that at the time, I would have laughed at. Being unpopular in school makes kids miserable, some of them. Telling me that I didn't.

Of course. I wanted to be popular. But in fact I didn't, not enough. There was something else I wanted. Not simply to do well in school, though that. In general, to. make great things. At the time I never tried to separate my wants and weigh them. If I had, I would have seen that being smart.

If someone had offered me the chance to be. I wouldn't have taken it. Much as they suffer from their unpopularity, I don't think many. To them the thought of average intelligence is unbearable. For half of them, it would be. Even for someone in the eightieth percentile (assuming. And that, I think, is the root of the problem.

Nerds serve two. masters. They want to be popular, certainly, but they want even. And popularity is not something you can do in. American secondary school.

Alberti, arguably the archetype of the Renaissance Man, writes that. They. occasionally take vacations; some even have hobbies. An American. teenager may work at being popular every waking hour, 3. I don't mean to suggest they do this consciously. Some of them truly.

Machiavellis, but what I really mean here is that teenagers. For example, teenage kids pay a great deal of attention to clothes. They dress to look good. Other kids' opinions become their. And so every effort they.

They don't realize that it takes work to. In general, people outside some very demanding field.

For example, most people seem to consider. Likewise, popular. The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things. Their attention is drawn to books or the natural. They're like someone trying to.

Other. players who can focus their whole attention on the game beat them. Even if nerds cared as much as other kids about popularity, being. The popular kids learned to. While the. nerds were being trained to get the right answers, the popular kids. So far I've been finessing the relationship between smart and nerd. In fact it's only the. A nerd is someone who isn't socially.

In a typical. American school, standards for coolness are so high (or at least. Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requires. And that's. why smart people's lives are worst between, say, the ages of eleven. Life at that age revolves far more around popularity. Before that, kids' lives are dominated by their parents, not by. Kids do care what their peers think in elementary school. Around the age of eleven, though, kids seem to start treating their.

They create a new world among themselves, and. If you leave a bunch of eleven- year- olds. Lord of the Flies. Like. a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it. was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to.

This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed. I didn't get the additional message. I wish. they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world.

Nerds would find their unpopularity more bearable if it merely. Unfortunately, to be unpopular in school.

Why? Once again, anyone currently in school might think this a. How could things be any other way? Adults don't normally persecute nerds. Why do teenage. kids do it? Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many. Some torture nerds for the.

Before you develop a. Another reason kids persecute nerds is to make themselves feel. When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own.

I've read that this is why poor whites in the United. States are the group most hostile to blacks. But I think the main reason other kids persecute nerds is that it's. Popularity is only partially.

It's much more about alliances. By singling. out and persecuting a nerd, a group of kids from higher in the. Attacking an outsider. This is why the worst cases of bullying. Ask any nerd: you get much worse treatment from. If it's any consolation to the nerds, it's nothing personal. The. group of kids who band together to pick on you are doing the same.

They don't actually hate you. They just need something. Watch online Stand By in english in 2160p 16:9 here. Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe target. If I remember correctly, the most popular.

The distribution of. A woman I know says that. Unpopularity. is a communicable disease; kids too nice to pick on nerds will still. It's no wonder, then, that smart kids tend to be unhappy in middle. Their other interests leave them little. And the strange thing is, this nightmare scenario happens. For me the worst stretch was junior high, when kid culture was new.

Nearly everyone I've talked to. In our school it was eighth grade, which was ages twelve and thirteen.

There was a brief sensation that year when one of our. It didn't have any noticeable effect. What struck me at the time. You mean she doesn't know the kind of. You mean this isn't normal? It's important to realize that, no, the adults don't know what the.

They know, in the abstract, that. But, like. us, they don't like to dwell on this depressing fact, and they don't. Public school teachers are in much the same position as prison.

Wardens' main concern is to keep the prisoners on the. They also need to keep them fed, and as far as possible. Beyond that, they want to. From what. I've read, the society that the prisoners create is warped, savage. In outline, it was the same at the schools I went to.

The most. important thing was to stay on the premises. While there, the. But beyond that they didn't want to have. Like prison wardens, the teachers.

And, like prisoners, the culture we. Why is the real world more hospitable to nerds? It might seem that. But I don't think this is true. And so, apparently. Manhattan, life for women sounds. I think the important thing about the real world is not that it's.

That's what school, prison, and ladies- who- lunch. The inhabitants of all those worlds are trapped in little. They have no. function for their form to follow. When the things you do have real effects, it's no longer enough. It starts to be important to get the right. Bill Gates will. of course come to mind. Though notoriously lacking in social skills.

The other thing that's different about the real world is that it's. In a large enough pool, even the smallest minorities.

Out in the real. world, nerds collect in certain places and form their own societies. Sometimes the current. John Nash. so admired Norbert Wiener that he adopted his habit of touching the. As a thirteen- year- old kid, I didn't have much more experience of. I saw immediately around me. The warped little. I thought, the world.

The world seemed cruel. I'm not sure which was worse. Because I didn't fit into this world, I thought that something must. I didn't realize that the reason we nerds didn't.

We were already thinking about. We were a bit like an adult would be if he were thrust back into.

He wouldn't know the right clothes to wear, the right. He'd seem to the kids a. The thing is, he'd know enough not to care what.

We had no such confidence. A lot of people seem to think it's good for smart kids to be thrown. I remember sitting in the audience. I felt like an explorer witnessing some bizarre tribal. If I could go back and give my thirteen year old self some advice. I'd tell him would be to stick his head up and look.

I didn't really grasp it at the time, but the whole world. Twinkie. Stream Lazareth online in english with subtitles in 2K here. Not just school, but the. Why do people move to suburbia?

So no. wonder it seemed boring and sterile. The whole place was a giant. Where I grew up, it felt as if there was nowhere to go, and nothing.

Suburbs are deliberately designed to. And as for the schools, they were just holding pens within this. Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In. fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one. And. I have no problem with this: in a specialized industrial society. What bothers me is not that the kids are kept in prisons, but that.

Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing. And if they balk at this surreal cocktail, they're. Life in this twisted world is stressful for the kids. And not just. for the nerds. Like any war, it's damaging even to the winners. Adults can't avoid seeing that teenage kids are tormented.

So why. don't they do something about it? Because they blame it on puberty. There's nothing wrong with.

This idea is so pervasive that even the kids believe it, which. Someone who thinks his feet naturally hurt. I'm suspicious of this theory that thirteen- year- old kids are. If it's physiological, it should be. Are Mongol nomads all nihilists at thirteen? I've read. a lot of history, and I have not seen a single reference. They got in fights and played tricks on one another of.

Michelangelo had his nose broken by a bully), but they.

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