Academia is the domain which facilitates the activity of studying a converging complexity of existence, in increasingly exquisite detail, which in the mind of the student thereby confers an essentially all-encompassing intellectual power in all areas of everyday life. Even in those arenas where there is an almost total absence of experience, the academic presumes that they would indeed have been expert if they had chosen to dedicate their considerable powers to it, and thereby as a consequence are justified in assuming their opinions are of cosmic import.

The faculties which are the most propitious environment for the flowering of the affliction, are those which foster the homeopathic strategy of diluting the scope of the subject matter in order to promote a significant dilatation of omniscience.

The seated position, preferably in a fauteuil académic, is the most productive for the fabrication of hypothetic conceptual structures. From this posture, especially in a choreographic location designed for the purpose, the assistance of strategically located mirrors and diverse viewing aids can provide support and verification by self-reflections and aural reverberations. Assuming also that the distractions of the outside world have been minimised, there is no reason why a virtual hologram of intellect cannot be sustained for most of the tenure of the academic.

Much philosophy, economics, history , politics and cosmology has been fabricated from the rarified speculations imprisoned in this abstracted environment. Most attempt to compel existence to conform to their simplifications and hold reality to account when it unpredictably deviates.