academia, elitist, cloistered, academe, insular, echo chamber, egghead, stuffy, conformist, postmodernist, technocratic, relativist, intellectualism, rarefied, meritocracies, careerist, technocracy, groupthink, confines, aloof, hoi polloi, cubicle, professoriate, fishbowl, dreamworld, realm, unacademic, panjandrum, logicians, garret, academics, highbrow, highfalutin, snobbish, armchair, liberalist, dilettantes, bureaucrats, utopians, placeless, absolutist, credentialism, mount olympus, fantasyland, cushy, ahistorical, dunderheads, busybodies, materialists, scientism, oxbridge, cliquey, ghetto, cultureless, rarified, establishmentarian, fuddy, empiricist, arguers, idealists, freudian psychology, futurology, luddite, exclusionism, snobbery, elites, intellectual, plebs, cesspool, snooty, troglodyte, medievalist, dullards, deconstructionism, legalism, dogmatic, ex cathedra, pigeonholes, pompous, cocoon, thinkers, jeffersonian, hermits, politically correct, lecturing, loftily, citadels, goldfish bowl, effete, prigs, dogmatist, noosphere, soapbox, lunacies, pusillanimous, objectivist, sinecure, myopic, blowhards, reify, snobs, enlightened

cognitive state, state of mind