This is a narrative about the decline of the academic world. Knowledge is a vast ocean. People once organized themselves to explore this ocean better, creating schools and departments that served as ships, universities that served as ports, and many other things. 

However, through this organization, some dominated who were merely interested in posing as leaders rather than being good sailors. Those who wanted to seize power rather than conquer knowledge were the pirates who replaced most genuine sailors, even though they had no idea about navigation and the sea.