"when in everyday life we tend to avoid situations that will induce a negative emotion" One of the problems with the pyramidal nature of academia is professors

"when in everyday life we tend to avoid situations that will induce a negative emotion" One of the problems with the pyramidal nature of academia is professors are likely to be very disconnected from normal experiences of life. Extremes of privilege, wealth, gated community standard of living on campus, high status levels. If only we were all lucky enough to experience negative situations as rarely as an extremely privileged professor. Given that it seems obvious that a rando consumer would have trouble relating to a professor, it seems self evident that a subpopulation of consumers will have essentially no common ground to discuss philosophical outlooks with a prof. Its kind of like the CEO of walmart not being cultural bro with a randomly selected entry level unskilled employee. Its unlikely either could have anything useful to say about the other.