Count this Ivy League grad as anti-intellectual.  In the US, with more and more people going to college, we have more and more stupid people thinking that they are smart.    They seem to think that sitting through a bunch of lectures, particularly those in the social sciences, by "those who teach" and memorizing their propaganda raises them to a different level of social status, smarter than others.  

But what's a shame is how part of the brainwashing makes them speak differently, putting on airs, to make themselves sound smarter than they really are.  They're human computers, programmed by elitist professors to turn people into wanna-be intellectuals; still unable to think, just regurgitating the memory from their hard drives.

Look at the whole climate change fiasco: no one dare question the (crap) data analysis, because, you know, it was generated and analyzed by scientists who went to college and became smart just like they did.  Meanwhile, many shunned science courses as too hard