One wrinkle to the issue is that an intelligent uncredentialed person doesn’t have the specific experience required to criticize academia personally and anecdotally. It would almost take someone going under cover. He would have to get his degree and then criticize the degree-seeking process as being largely wasteful. So he would have to admit he made a mistake. Most aren’t willing to talk about years and $thousands in such a manner.
It’s like when people say they’re going to “take down the system from the inside”. When they finally do infiltrate, they’re then absorbed, converged, and compromised to the point that they are dependent upon and defensive of the system.
One wrinkle to the issue is that an intelligent uncredentialed person doesn’t have the specific experience required to criticize academia personally and anecdotally. It would almost take someone going under cover. He would have to get his degree and then criticize the degree-seeking process as being largely wasteful. So he would have to admit he made a mistake. Most aren’t willing to talk about years and $thousands in such a manner.
It’s like when people say they’re going to “take down the system from the inside”. When they finally do infiltrate, they’re then absorbed, converged, and compromised to the point that they are dependent upon and defensive of the system.