It all started, at the VERY top, you know, that dude wearing the “crown”, who’d become, the court jester??? Yeah, H-I-M!!!
The fall of intellectual hierarchy, this, is happening, because the colleges are everywhere, any everybody with a working NEURON (this IS the TRUTH!!!) who applies, can get in.
And, that, is what’s happening all over the world right now, with higher education becoming “ordinary” (compared to before, it’s only, the elitist bunches who are able to get in???), any CLOWN can get in (and now, we’re still NOT talking about those professional CLOWN schools where the graduates start working as clowns here!), and, everybody can easily get in, and wheeze their ways through their four years of higher ed.

school turned into, a HUGE P-A-R-T-Y!!! Not my photograph…
The fall of intellectual hierarchy, of course, I’m still NOT saying, that the governments across this big ol’ world should NOT provide for the students’ higher ed, but, with higher ed being, easier, and easier to get, the levels of education that these new-age college students, will surely, drop to the level of middle school, no, ELEMENTARY school age children.