On: American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth

[ecopoesis]

The Big Biang Theiry is "nerdface." The audience is lsughing at the characters, not with them.

[rmah → ecopoesis]

True, but the show is not mocking intellect or intelligence, it is mocking nerdiness. Which, believe it or not, is not really that highly correlated.

[sn9 → rmah]

That would be news to the overwhelming majority of its audience.

[sebastianconcpt → ecopoesis]

The balance of the emotional attachment is positive so..