[quote=Uskglass]
I agree, but I think it's a little presumptuous to imply that none of these sad sacks of shit are "genuinely intelligent." The problem comes from the fact that even if you are an intelligent person, that's a very difficult trait to quantify or demonstrate. And when it's one of the few-to-only positive traits you have, people who are not particularly confident in themselves tend to put the nebulous concept of "intellect" on a pedestal. There's two ways that can go. The first is that you retreat into yourself and say "At least I'm intelligent" while the world spins by you, but it burns like hell every time you meet someone who is smarter than you, which is always bound to happen eventually, because in your head it means that they're better than you in every conceivable way. That's the path I took for several years early in high school, until I realized that insecurity is bullshit and I'm the fucking man.The other path is lashing out, deciding that intelligence, specifically your intelligence, is the most important trait and everyone who doesn't agree with you on everything is a fool and vastly inferior to you. Case in point, the fine gentlemen you see in this thread.
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I disagree. I know in myself that there's a deep level of insecurity and need for the recognition (if not necessarily approval) of my positive qualities by my peers, and I do consider my intelligence to be both high and one of my more important traits. I'm also painfully aware that there isn't much to make me likable. Yet, I would and do relish the chance to meet people who are infinitely more intelligent than me. It's why I was deeply disappointed at not getting into Cambridge - the thing I was most excited about was that there, I'd be the bottom of the class instead of the top of the school, for once. It would have been a chance for an intellectual challenge, and though I knew I would have fully hated being outsmarted constantly, I also relished the idea of learning from and being inspired by these people. 
I've spent most of my life miles ahead of my peers, I highly value my intelligence, I'm pretty damn insecure, and yet I don't lash out or retreat into myself. And because singular anecdotes are never exactly solid evidence to the contrary, I'll note that I've met many people like this (again, not great evidence, but hey-ho). I think what you're saying is largely correct, as in those behaviours are [i]common[/i], I just think that generalising it to such a high extent can lead to the exact sort of kneejerk shoehorning/categorising of people that you're criticising in Hank's statement that they all lack genuine intelligence.