There were no nerds in the 1700s. There were no nerds in the 1800s. When did nerds as a distinct social category come about?
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"intellectuals are weak and ineffectual" is an anxiety people have had since at least the time of Pericles, but my sense is that intellectuals *themselves* didn't buy into it and denigrate their own activities.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_Christianity … seems to have started a bit earlier but is culturally related
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Admittedly not an educated opinion, but I would guess that the sentiment has long existed among labor classes, but that that era is the earliest for which a strong signal reaches us today
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could be! but we mostly hear from the upper class of all eras. you might say that the mid-late 19th century was the first time when "mass movements" were a thing and it was becoming taboo even in the upper classes to straight-up ignore popular opinion.
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