Such seems to be the attitude of anyone associated with an institution of, risible as it is to write this, 'higher' learning. You're too stupid to understand the 'dynamics' of the situation and therefore must be told how important this procedure is and why. Such antics not only remind us of a certain political leader and his busybody wife, but they also underscore for us why conservative pundit Bill Buckley often said he'd rather be ruled by the first 500 names in the Cambridge phone book than the Harvard faculty. No, this was not just a Yalie talking. It was experience.
Intellectuals are smarter than regular folk.
They just aren't any wiser when it comes to politics, as Kock's book explains. Koch is not the first to point this out. But gridiron Riegels only ran the wrong way. When intellectuals get it wrong, there are usually a mountain of bodies to bury. Koch takes readers on the ride of their lives, chronicling the desperate and depressing life of one, Willi Munzenberg.