Man, we are a messed up bunch

Here's a fun trick. Get a group of academics together in a room. Doesn't matter what department they're in. History, Sociology, Econ, Statistics, Engineering... get a good mix. Talk to them for awhile. Move around the room and watch them interact with one another. Do this for at least an hour. Then review what you've just seen and heard. I guarantee that you won't find a bigger group of social retards socially maladjusted people. I don't know what it is about universities, but they tend to draw an overwhelming number of misfits. It was described to me perfectly the other day: in society, you have a majority of normal people coexisting with a minority of oddities, people on the fringe who don't know how to act in public. In academia, it's the reverse. The misfits are in charge and the normal folks are on the fringe, getting the weird looks and the sidelong glances. Why is that?