Just considering most people (?) are attracted toward people that seem to care or are fun to be around, then the claim can be sound.. "Intelligence" is more of a byproduct thing, it's extra, and not as essential - to a hive mind - as being fun and relatable, since "science" has a reputation for being "hard" most people don't delve, thus.
But there are multiple areas of intelligence... Someone can be more intelligent in social situations, which can be valued, but it can also be limited due to insufficiencies in other areas?
So ignorance is only partly bliss since it's capable of possibly getting by without potential benefits of intelligence, which is overrated for adhering to certain values more people will be inclined to feel alienated from -- although it can aid in some ways the experience of life, which I suppose exploring is a default responsibility, which can lead one to, in certain societies it could be more likely, claim it to be overrated due to results, but someone would have to apparently be condemned for losing interest or not being responsible/work ethic, also intelligence could be defined as how quick one adapts to unknown situations, so a truly intelligent person who is adept at all subjects would have no issue adapting to a social situation in which "small talk" must be tolerated for however long
And lol @ the Illuminati having orgies.. They probably do, too. At the moment it isn't simple to tell which facet of illuminati that is, but one thing is perhaps more or less certain: they have control over large amounts of resource, or they ARE the resource.. Also, some original teachings of them/Freemasons seem to be proponents of particular spiritual outlooks that seem to be frowned upon by society in general/synchronicities; etc, unless I did something wrong.