Vladimir Lenin was an intellectual who fantasized about Marxist revolution while sipping Viennese coffee near the Opera House. We know how that turned out. Pol Pot had a similar affinity for coffee—learning his ideological extremism from the French café intelligentsia on the Champs Elyssee.
Professional thinkers should never be given power. They are imprisoned in their own thinking.
Agree. You may not be old enough to remember the old southern comic, Brother Dave Gardiner, but in one of his skits he made reference to one of those types, “Oh, he thinks too much, he bout half smart.”