Our support programs for people who "live in their heads"
   (intellectuals) is completely tied into self-sufficiency.
   Self-sufficiency is the norm. Money. Money is a practical
   matter.

   Practical comes first, then intellectual.

   An impractical intellectual who isn't supported by academia must
   start a business / get a job, to survive, otherwise, he/she may
   find him/herself ostracized.   The tide may be changing though.
   Internet culture. Gamer culture. So I have hope. It can.
   Why?
   You can have practical without intellectual.
   But there is little room for intellectual without practical.
   There shouldn't be but there is.
   An American dichotomy:

   ACADEMIA
   vs
   WORK

   or
   GET YOUR DEGREE
   vs
   LEARN A TRADE.