Reminds me of what Eric Hoffer wrote years ago,
“Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.
The problem for society is “that the alienated intellectual does not want to be left alone,” Hoffer wrote. “He wants to influence affairs, have a hand in making history, and feel important.” The country continued to be plagued by problems “like race relations, violence, drugs.” Common people, however, “know that at present, money cannot cure crime, poverty, etc., whereas the social doctors go on prescribing an injection of so many billions for every social ailment.”
Hoffer concluded: “We must deflate the pretensions of self-appointed elites. These elites will hate us no matter what we do, and it is legitimate for us to help dump them into the dustbin of history.”
Yup. Elitists want to be worshipped as gods. An ego can be a poisonous thing, but God has a way of tripping up the haughty.