[carapace]

Yep.

My thesis is that this is primarily because the normals picked on the nerds up until they realized there was a lot of money to be made if you're the right kind of nerdy (or if you can fake it), around the time of the Dot Com Boom. There's residual resentment there.

Also, people who are otherwise intelligent but unwilling to learn to program computers themselves seem stupid to the dedicated computer nerd, no matter how intelligent they are.

I'm not making excuses, these are just theories about why we nerds can be so ... arrogant?