"What wind-baggery in our universities Master!"
"What particular stupidity have you in Mind?"
"It is the theorising about things, making definite statements even without having read up on the subject at all. One can meet a pseudologist who chatters about, say, Nazism, yet, it appears he has not even read Mein Kampf or old copies of the Voelkischer Beobachter."
"This is more or less the normal procedure, theorising from double or treble hearsay. In our universities, they teach what others said (Aristotle, Cicero, Tacitus, Montaigne etc. ), or are thought too have said, yet, the necessity of studying the authors themselves is not required or recommended. Pupils may find misconceptions. Thus, one can observe a vehement abuse and invective against, say, Malthus, or Spencer, while even their very words indicate that they have not read a scrap of the victims. It all is amply explained in Andreski. He shows how e.g. a professor is in a position of power. He has accademic positions, budgets to give away. In the mean time, he abhors 'New Think', new ideas. He therefore attracts flatterers and 'yes sayers', the noncreatives, like flies to a candle. BUT..., these inferiors, in the end, become professors in turn, that is the Way, therefore: generations after generations of wind-baggery."