I would go further than say it is an unnecessarily negative framing, this idea always seemed pretentious to me, nowadays it seems supressive. Are they really i

I would go further than say it is an unnecessarily negative framing, this idea always seemed pretentious to me, nowadays it seems supressive. Are they really imagined? Or is this idea mostly a "social contruct" that is not really accepted as reality outside of a few "intellectuals". They seem to be describing their delusions of grandeur. Is it not them that have the problem?