“Like the professors at Harvard?”
Many years ago I realized there was a huge difference between smart people and the educated. The professors at Harvard are the educated.
Smart people are those that are creative in nature and are good at problem solving. It used to be smart people entered the STEM fields. Many blue collar technical fields have smart people.
The left is full of the educated. The Harvard professors are highly educated parading around quite arrogantly as smart people. Journalists are at the very bottom of the educated in terms of being smart.
Our society is geared towards believing educated and smart are one in the same. If one is not educated, there’s no way he can be smart.
Just my opinion.
I always thought the same, but classified some as educated, and some as educated beyond their ability to understand. Many degreed people seem to have a grasp of a great many facts by rote, but are unable to internalize it rationally.
I highly recommend reading Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, as a sort of primer on the discourse among the “educated” that led to truth becoming subject to the narrative rather than the other way around.