But this is just evidence of the extent to which many academics and their unions live in a world dangerously detached from reality.
The world wasn't shy about telling us how they felt - they saw Americans as detached from the world, uneducated about the world and then of course all the adjectives we've come to know all too well, especially since 9/11: that we're arrogant, ignorant, and lacking in social graces.
His father was, it seems, too reserved, too decent, too genuinely detached from the world, to grip him.
But there is no such ego detached from the world and filled with ideas or representations, according to Heidegger.
They are detached from the world, it appears, because they don't believe anything foreign can seriously touch their lives.
This sense of hiding away from trouble and of leaders being detached from the world remains one of the problems with bunkers.
If a faithful adaptation results in "a lifeless work, detached from our world," that is the fault of the director, not the playwright.
As with many saints who were both detached from the world and very much involved in worldly affairs, his story mixes images of humility and power, peace and war.
Increasingly, they comprise the hard-to-employ, lacking in skills and long detached from the world of work.To achieve full employment, Labour now has two groups of people in its sights.
In fact, David is so pathologically detached from the world around him that it's difficult to care very much about him or, indeed, any of the other characters who, seen through David's eyes, are a far from endearing group of inadequate flakes, sinister control freaks and lust objects.
