Why dumb elites think they are elite and what they're missing

It use to be to get access to books and other higher cultural influences you had to go to a university. If you were an average Joe, that is, and your father didn't have a library and tutors and musicians and what not in the house.

Thus there was a true separation between the educated and the uneducated. (Without going into other unique avenues: church schools, charity, the more monomaniacal self-educated, etc.)

This is not to say that even back then the educated had by default more understanding and wisdom than the so-called unwashed. Traditional knowledge and common-sense could still out pace a university education. Nothing was guaranteed. 

Still, on the whole a university education separated a person from the mass of humanity.

Fast forward to today. I can get and read any book or hear any musical work or what have you a student at a university has access to. Obviously I'm not talking about hard sciences here, but liberal arts. Liberal arts and related subject matter are really what self-identified elites think of when they think about their superiority over the masses regarding education. But you don't have to go to a university to get those influences. Even if you start sentences with '[B]ut.'

Not just that, but modern university students are hamstrung by having leftwing Marxist professors who have the I.Q. of dupes executed the morning after a successful Marxist revolution.

Thus they're in worse shape than me. 

Which is why self-identified elites are so dumb today.