I was/ran around with the nerds and spergs in school. (Barely Pre-internet but we liked bbses.)
Redditors remind me of how we used to try to be loud/conspicuous with uncalled for and inappropriate weed, sex, porn, punk rock, metal references because nerds totally were not allowed those things and we were definitely not nerds. I mean being conspicuous in school and on the bbses, probably lots of people impressed with us lol.
We had the exact same view of smart and dumb people posted above (that was a good post) but mtv was at the time the only one trying to groom teenagers into communist ideologies and we mostly thought of mtv as the nigger and aids channel that also has headbanger's ball on a couple hours a week.
If there had been more shitlib=genius brainwashing back then who knows if they'd have got us, we were all anti-religion, but I think nerds back then if they were asked about politics would more align with something that projects strength and power and not cucking and subservience for obvious reasons.