> academics might imagine themselves to be these insanely powerful people It long ago escaped academia. Everyone wants to imagine themselves "insanely powerf

> academics might imagine themselves to be these insanely powerful people It long ago escaped academia. Everyone wants to imagine themselves "insanely powerful people" now. It's part of the sell. But based on experience I'm with Chomsky, that the majority of academics are abject cowards (if we weren't we'd take back the universities) > Eugenics was the same. It was a Progressive way of thinking. Again I think you're right, painful as the truth is. I met many oh-so humane "Humanists" eager to stop the suffering of those poor untermensch.