Why do you feel hostile to academics?
david f,
Because of my experiences with many. From social engineering disasters to indoctrination education which showered us with thousands upon thousands of useless, incompetent bureaucrats to just as useless people in the Judiciary & in Government. i.e. all who made many peoples' lives a misery because these "Academic experts" always claimed to know better.
Yes, there are many decent & knowledgable learned out there but they're heavily out-numbered by the afore-mentioned. I'm sure you can verify that !
How many of the social engineering experts that haven't been to University do you know of ?
Mathematicians, Doctors, Engineers (proper ones) & indeed most professional people should object to be thrown into the same category as Academics !

Dear Indyvidual,

I am proud to have been an academic, and I don't think further discussion on my part would be useful.

Hi David,

Those of the extreme, people like the yarpie Indy, have always had an aversion to people of knowledge, those he calls "academics". For knowledge is power, and true knowledge is a danger to the philosophy of the extreme, which is to control through ignorance. With knowledge comes thought, questioning, and a desire for a better way, things alien to the extremists who believes all that is required is contained within the extreme philosophy. It is no accident that when in power, everyone from Hitler and Stalin to Pol Pot and others of the far right and left attacked "academics", they were the real danger to their controlling influence and power.

I doubt Indy has ever known his despised public servants, who in his perverted mind he equates to the hated "academics". BTW Indy has no influence or power, and relies on the despised public service to dole out his dose of welfare every fortnight.

One just needs to listen to the intonation of many of these Academics & it becomes clear to a sober mind that many such Academics are put on pedestals by their peers so they in turn will put the other lot on the pedestals of over-hype of importance.
Paul1405 is simply a silly git who believes literally anything so long as it is anti-European.
Scholars are valued members of society, Academics merely waffle on as if the are !

For Pol Pot the despised academics were people wearing glasses, hummm. For the yarpie Indy its the "intonation" of a persons voice that makes them a despised academic, how strange.

Paul1405,
Look up what intonation means !