All of this is very unfortunate. Ideally, the great academic minds of a society should be put to work for the sake of building up that society and addressing its problems. Instead, most Western academics today are using their intellectual capital to answer questions that nobody’s asking on pages that nobody’s reading.
Another reason your college degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on… or even the ink.
Source: Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads | Intellectual Takeout
