Lonely Academics

“individuals who bare their souls in books are isolated and lonely, living in a virtual reality instead of forming real relationships or helping to change the world.” "Academics are living in a world where emotions may be real but everything else is make-believe" Academics think of themselves as rebels against mainstream society, but that rebellion is mostly confined to ivory towers, Just replace the words books, Academics, ivory towers with blogs and bloggers and cyberspace and you will get a sense of the stupidity of comments about blogging made by this U of C prof.