Liberals in Academia

Why should that thought occur to anyone? Other perhaps than someone so deep within the ivy halls as to have lost sight of whats real and how and why real things get done in the real world.

real world
I suppose that by the real world, timberlandko means one in which we spend billions on antiballistic defense programs that never work, market drugs that cause heart attacks, fight a war against the wrong country using lies as a justification, trash the environment, and treat disagreement as treason.

That sorta question pretty well illustrates the trouble some folks have figurin' out whats real, allright.

There's certainly a difference between college professors who have always been academics and those that spent time as professionals and then became professors. Intelligence needs to be coupled with experience in order to make it truly useful - I believe that is the frustration that business leaders feel. An academic is sheltered. In a sheltered environment, utopia begins to look possible. Throw in the realities of a messy world that the business leader sees every day and all the equations and theories need some modifications to make them work.

Maybe there's a war in some nasty little place nobody wants to visit. What to do? Get a college deferment. Still going on at graduation? Go for an advanced degree. Teach college courses to other young men that also don't want that expense paid vacation. And it's all okay, if you are an academic and a liberal.