I enjoy intellectual pursuits, i.e. reading, foreign films, lectures, etc. This is different than saying I'm a Harvard professor.
So consuming other peoples' works makes you an intellectual?
No... That makes you a pseudo-intellectual.
Creating new things makes you an intellectual.
Thinking new things makes you an intellectual.
Becoming a new thing makes you an intellectual.
You haven't even paid the entrance fee to Intellectual-land....
In spite of it's trappings, an MBA is merely a high-level vocational degree. It is all concerned with the worries and narrow-mind of the shopkeeper.
It is the concrete world; not the abstract ideas of Science; Math; Medicine; Art; Politics or War.
You may become a highly successful businesswoman without ever having had an original idea....
At least the 'PTA Mom', the 'burger flipper', and the soldier you denigrate all create something new and they all make life better for other people.
In such they are Noble.
You spurn nobility for the narrow-mind of the bottom-line--for the worries of the shopkeeper.
and you consider yourself an intellectual.
"Creating new things makes you an intellectual.
Thinking new things makes you an intellectual.
Becoming a new thing makes you an intellectual."
Are you a fellow Rand fan?