Aye, and that goes both ways. Many normal activities are labelled "intellectual" and actively avoided by people who don't want this label. In this light, there

Aye, and that goes both ways. Many normal activities are labelled "intellectual" and actively avoided by people who don't want this label. In this light, there's no need to single out nerds/intellectuals/whatevers. We can just say that cultivating an active disinterest to isolate yourself from others is generally a bad thing.