Gad Saad on Ideas and Academic Status

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1. 9:27Now, why is that? Is it because intellectuals are dumb?
2. 9:30No. It's because many intellectuals operate in an ecosystem that is perfectly
3. 9:35decoupled from the autocorrective slap of reality, right?
4. 9:39So I can sit up as a humanities professor in my tweed jacket and say that up is down,
5. 9:44left is right, men are women, and then I'm hailed as a great thinker of lesbian dance
6. 9:49theory, and I get promoted to becoming a tenured professor.
7. 9:53I don't get punished for espousing nonsense.
8. 9:55I go upward the more insane my ideas are, right?

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