Critique of Ideas in Academia

How come almost every single time bad ideas come from universities?

So Orwell answered it one way, I'll paraphrase it.

So he said something to the effect of, "It takes intellectuals to come up with

some

of the dumbest ideas."

Yes.

And I wholeheartedly agree with that. Now, why is that?

Because in many cases, the academic who literally lives

in the ivory tower is fully decoupled from the

autocorrective mechanism of reality.

Mm.

Right? So for example, I, I am housed in a business school.

In the business school, there is less parasitic ideas, because

if you build an economic model to predict the economy that's based

on postmodernism, reality will tell you, you suck.

If y- engineering schools also have less

parasitic ideas, because if you

build a bridge using postmodernist indigenous physics as opposed

to physics, then the bridge will collapse.

So some disciplines have an inoculation against these

parasitic ideas because reality will quickly catch up to you.

But in other disciplines, in the humanities

and some of the social sciences, I

could sit on top of my pulpit, pontificate about

nonsense. There isn't an autocorrective mechanism

that's called

reality, and that's why I become the promulgator of

nonsense