Brent, you can claim more experience all you want but I still rely upon my own life experiences. I don't feel any repulsion at all for the academic life, not at all, but apparently some of the academics feel some sort of repulsion for many of the rest of us and our more-blue-collar lives.
Ponder this: 100 years ago even the average high school graduate had at least a nodding acquaintance with Latin, Greek and the classics, and teachers were almost always respected as pillars of the community. Today our colleges(!?) teach remedial English & remedial math as SOP, and many teachers seem to be either degenerates or extreme liberals who dislike guns and embrace censorship of reading material. Frequent mentions of these aberrant behaviors are all over the national news media, all the time, so it seems to me that many in the academic world have kinda rejected the rest of us by moving even further away from the mainstream. Whatever, JMOFWIW, but I'll bet that your opinion is a minority even among college professors. The most 'prestigious' universities in the US are located in CA and MA, how many shooting sportsmen do you think teach at Berkley and MIT? I won't even mention Pepperdine or Harvard! Even Emory down in GA has more than its share of ultra-PCs, my brother is a graduate of the Emory Law School & you should hear some of HIS stories!
Regards, Joe
