Interesting points. I would add, or maybe it's just IOW, the liberals of academia and journalism have labored mightily to destroy the recognition of actual achievement to be replaced by their fields of endeavor - talking or writing about it. It seems to me they believe, or want us to believe dialogue is the highest and best achievement to to strive for. All the while upbraiding those that actually get things done.
Collectivism denies the very concept of value, replacing it with relativistic and fluid standards of infinitely malleable meaning, in the service of a higher "cause" or "purpose". All of which militates against the rights of the individual and in favor of whatever is seen to benefit a group (or groups) on the basis of their perceived need.
People who actually produce, create and achieve are hated, feared or envied by those who wish to evade the responsibility of doing the same. Perhaps that's why they talk so much and do so little...