It is a very bad political timing to flaunt the 'ivory tower' (not to mention, it IS philosophically and academically misguided); specifically to flaunt the inability of intellectuals to reach out to ordinary people. The great suffering that many ordinary peple endure at the present time is almost unbearable and any morally decent intellectual should feel embarrassed - ashamed even - with his/her inability to speak for them and speak to them. In fact anyone observing the past year and a half situations in the country, should not have failed to notice that while people in many circles have tried to rise up to the junta in extremely difficult circumstances, the one group of people, our high intellectuals-academics who always claim democratic credentials for themselves is relatively, strangely very quiet. We now have "พลเมืองโต้กลับ", "ประชาธิปไตยใหม่" not to mention attempts at resistance by great many ordinary people in many different forms. One would have thought that we should have already seen something like an "academics for democracy" group coming out by now, certainly one should not have expected to see any display of pride on the part of our high intellectuals of their inability to talk or write straight political discourses.