Anonymous Dude on Brackish Waters, Barren Soil

Oh, I agree! It was a joke. The joke is that everyone loves to talk about intelligence and wisdom to make fun of nerds...but the use of the particular terms 'intelligence' and 'wisdom' to draw that particular contrast, as far as I can tell, seems to originate with Dungeons & Dragons, which used to be the nerdiest thing you can do. ;) Google Ngrams shows both terms showing an uptick around 2000, which is about when kids who played the first edition would be starting to enter early middle age and therefore positions of influence. But I could be way off. ;)