I have been an academic all of my professional life, and these people expose the dirty little secret of Academe: The intelligence of university faculty is greatly overrated. They are really not very smart at all.
Remember professors hold esoteric knowledge. They lack life expierence and broad knwowledge.
I’m a high school dropout who dated a Serbian sociology professor. She was not impressed with the bulk of her colleagues. She called them arrogant people who look down on the world and have lost the ability to reason.
“The intelligence of university faculty is greatly overrated. They are really not very smart at all.”
....my wife would agree with you...matter of fact, she’s teaching her 8 o’clock section of freshman writing as I post this...in the last 20 years we’ve watched the liberal arts professoriat become more and more critical of America in general....and poorer and poorer individually...if they’re so smart, why are they not rich?