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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Replying to @MatjazLeonardis
my sense is around the turn of the 20th century when you start to get the Pragmatist philosophers and Theodore Roosevelt contrasting being a "man of action" with being a timid, weak intellectual.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @MatjazLeonardis
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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