Intellectualism in the time of Thuggery
Often intellectuals find their intellect completely superfluous in face of angry, stupid people. This is most commonly faced by users of public transport, e.g. trains, in the form of people talking loudly on phones or insisting upon partaking of dinner at midnight. Logic falls on deaf ears, and persistent arguments increases the probability of being flung out of the moving public transport, casting an abrupt and irreclaimable shadow upon, what could have been, a shining intellect. This aspect has been touched upon in the Panchatantram: