Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.