They always keep on asserting that 'multi-disciplinarianism' (always in the form of the less practical being pushed on the more practical, never the other way around despite the obvious role in understanding reality in well, understanding reality). They never worry about being detached from reality from their distance to the objective. It reeks of the bad old days of classical philosophy where they considered estrangement from reality an intrinsic virtue as "purity of thought" and looked down upon those who dealt with banal reality.

I have yet to see any actual backing for such claims. Only standard academia's toxic social knife-fighting and Kafka-traps. The specific form of bullshit being mounting social pressure as a weapon. Where where not agreeing with them and their theories means clearly you are more wrong and a worse person for not agreeing with them and thus you must agree with them!

It always rung of a scam to justify mandatory electives to justify the existence of their professorships. There is no intellectual honesty to be found here, only snobbery and blind adherence to cliches.