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This Facebook entry, written on December 23, 2011, declared my resignation to losing the popularity contest among my colleagues in Moscow and to being persecuted by them on these grounds. So it happened; but then the Russian Spring started and I left the country for good:
"A popularity contest is a popularity contest. A well-known explanation of why nerds are persecuted in schools is because the popularity contest among the schoolmates is a full-time job, for which the nerds have no time or energy, having dedicated themselves to other pursuits; so they lose it. I, for one, nowadays as well as a quarter century ago, have no talent, nor interest or desire, nor time and energy to pursue popularity; if I don't have it, so be it. I may be interested enough in the outcome of the contest to check it out, as it has consequences. I am certainly not interested enough to design my activities so that to affect the outcome."
https://www.facebook.com/posic/posts/pfbid02BxSZZFbNjjcDpFzPsPBnprokKbz1JRtZJUq7KmFFyRrtN8DjTxUPHJDegzQcBJaxl
"A popularity contest is a popularity contest. A well-known explanation of why nerds are persecuted in schools is because the popularity contest among the schoolmates is a full-time job, for which the nerds have no time or energy, having dedicated themselves to other pursuits; so they lose it. I, for one, nowadays as well as a quarter century ago, have no talent, nor interest or desire, nor time and energy to pursue popularity; if I don't have it, so be it. I may be interested enough in the outcome of the contest to check it out, as it has consequences. I am certainly not interested enough to design my activities so that to affect the outcome."
https://www.facebook.com/posic/posts/pfbid02BxSZZFbNjjcDpFzPsPBnprokKbz1JRtZJUq7KmFFyRrtN8DjTxUPHJDegzQcBJaxl
