A Short (and Bloody) History of the High I.Q. Societies (eskimo.com)

here's a shorter history - these groups are populated end-to-end by people who feel their meaningless jobs and accomplishments do not correspond to their obvious superiority, so they sit around bars in strip malls passing pseudo-intellectual banter normally reserved for the bookies gathered in the high school caf. where are all the nobel laureates? doing something meaningful, which is why they don't need to join loser clubs