The first direction that we will look at is intellectualism. This group of people feel that their way of thinking is superiour to anyother. The path of the intellectual can be seen in the high school geek. They were the readers! The ones with the top grades. Their work and understanding stood above the average. Although this group seems like a uniform group - it's not. They are segmented into several smaller groups; science, literature, history, art, and music. These groups break into even smaller groups like the goth - who read a specific type of literature and listen to a specific type of music.

While, the intellectuals are the rejects of society. They also reject the norm of the three primary groups; the popular, the jocks and the average. As stated the average will, in life, form the norm in society. However, most people, from early in childhood, want to belong to a group - to have peers. This includes the rejects, but schools are designed and focused on the average - on the mass of society. Of the masses, there must be leader (so the philosophy of society goes), it's viewed that this is the school's duty, via its teachers and administration, to allow those who will lead to stand out. These leaders will be popular (and atheletic), and the masses will follow them, because the masses will want to be just like the popular. While these differences just begin in elementary school, they take root (and become more distinct) in middle school (after the age of 12). The formation of social standing covers the range of the tween (those between the ages of 8 and 13) and becomes defined by grade nine (13/14) - maturing in high school. While it's rare, there are cross overs.

This group of the masses (the average), lead by the popular, set the standard for what is normal - for what is socially acceptable - what's fashionable. Yet this standard isn't created by the masses or its leaders - the influence comes from the edges (the fringes). To get a better understanding, view life as a circle, the very core of society are the popular (surrounded and protected by the masses). As you move further from the center, you move out to the fringes of society - and (typical) down in social standing. The popular, term hanging out with one of a lesser social standing - as charity and/or slumming. The image of the leaders out infront is an illusion. They in someways are in the safest place - isolated from the masses by their popularity, but not on the fringes like the geeks and freaks.

Ironically, the most intelligent are the groups that tend toward the fringe of society. Ironic - because you would think that - if developed by intellectuals - society (and fashion) would be lead by intellectuals. The problem is that the very thing that makes an intellectual, an intellectual, isolates him from society. From a very young age, people who are very smart (above average), read, and write before everyone else. This ability isolates them from others in school. As the get older, the differences (and isolation) grows - moving them towards the fringe of society. Here, the mass of society thins out to smaller subsocieties and individuals.

The groups are the geeks, and the individuals the freaks. There are the literature geeks - who read continuously and are the writers (fiction and science fiction). There are the actors, poets and musicians - who collectively make up the band and drama geeks. There are also history geeks - who re-enact events of history, stage mock governments and global diplomacy - delving into the history of man. Then there are the future CEO's - the business geeks. Finally, the most recognized of the geeks are the techno-science geeks - who changed the world, but still don't rule it. Beyond the groups of geeks are the freaks and individuals. These are people, who don't belong (or fit) into any group. These people have no group or click that they belong to or hang out with. Often these people float between groups - being on the fringe of any group that they are currently with (if any).

Intellectualism is a philosophy that came from the evolution of the geek section of society. They took direct opposition to the idea that all truth and all knowledge is divinely revealed. Man, according to the theology - from whence they came - aspoused the idea that man was merely a mechanism controlled by a god. Divinely controlled puppets, who were also highly flawed. This is where history becomes ironic and then repeats itself. The Church created schools run by an order of monks to determine divide truth from heresy. As these schools of truth evolved, it's from here that the intelectuals would spring - taking direct opposition to The Church. They set up theirown schools, and structures, based on what they had known. As such, all that changed was the authority by which knowledge was known and approved. Blinded by theirown authority - they are equally as wrong as The Church.