If adult teeth could regenerate themselves ...

In this day and age, it sometimes feels that academic knowledge goes down the drain.

And many, if not most, PhD degree holders are no longer regarded as the intelligentsia. Instead, they are viewed as just some losers who have wasted many precious potential money-earning years on some useless pursuits.

Isn't that so?

On the other hand, maybe the old notion of "the intelligentsia" was just a myth.