I basically enjoyed the article, but not this message which I felt was underlying: nerds are too smart to "get" society, because social customs make no sense an

I basically enjoyed the article, but not this message which I felt was underlying: nerds are too smart to "get" society, because social customs make no sense and only ordinary dumb people can tolerate their absurdity. Society does have a logic to it - there are just a ton of axioms, and much empiricism is required to catch the nuances. But clearly empiricism is at least as important as theory when dealing with real-world phenomena: you have to stop and observe closely how gravity works, otherwise you may deduce very wrong conclusions from seemingly sound premises. (@aristotle i still luv u)