Why do most NTs have little regard for professionals?

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Why is it that most people in society think they know everything and have little regard for professionals? I am not bitter, but I am about to get a PhD in ancient history and I'm sorry but I just happen to know more about ancient history than most people, who get the majority of their information from Wikipedia or other sites on the Net. Some people have the nerve to talk to me about my specific area of research and attempt to "teach" me things which are inherently wrong.

I would never get the nerve to pretend I know more than professinal people in other subjects. For example, I would never tell a dentist "this is how you drill a tooth" or a Astrophysicist "this is what black matter in space is made out of". I have great respect for other professionals.....why is it that most NTs don't respect them?

Because our society is increasingly narcissistic.

NT's dont respect anybody, sadly the same is true for people on the spectrum. It all comes down to pride, nobody want to be made to feel inferior to someone else.

I try to show respect, even though i know better than to expect it in return. Its a good thing i dont believe in "self-esteem" or i'd be bummin'

I think it's because many people are unaware of just how complex science, history, etc can be. So they think reading wikipedia gives them a decent understanding, when it barely searches the surface. It's like when creationists argue against evolution because it's says "humans came from monkeys". Clearly they have no idea how complex evolution is and just how much evidence there is to support it.

Yes, but if some idiot came to you and started telling you how the pyramids were built by aliens or by a bunch of foreigners and you tell them that there is not proof for that but there is lots of proof that they were built by Egyptian workers and you SHOW them the proof, are you not going to loose your cool when they insist that you are an idiot and that you don't know anything?

Sometimes, people without professional degrees resent those who have them. If everyone had a professional degree you wouldn't see this envy and bitterness about who has them and who doesnt. Bitterness would still exist because you cannot get rid of it. Everyone would have a degree of some kind so they would shift their bitterness to something else, like who has the best skills. Some people are never satisfied with what they have so they compensate by discounting what others have. This fulfills the atonement principle in their mind. They feel better about their situation this way. Perhaps a slight, natural rush of endorphins are the outcome of such thinking? This only reinforces it so the temptation to get caught in this thinking pattern is stronger.

I will offer you a differing opinion. I work with MANY PhDs in my field and have not hired MANY who are just getting theirs because they have the attitude you seem to project here. Yes, you have a LOT of education from the school BUT you have very little understanding of how that education is applied in the real-world. So if you came into my shop and acted as if you had nothing to learn, then you would be sent back to academia where people like you belong.

The BEST people (PhDs or not) are those who keep a watchful eye on the current science and apply an open mind to the fact that what we actually KNOW about science is insignificant to what we do not know. A PhD doesn't mean ANYTHING if you think you have nothing more to learn.

And NO... it does not annoy me when people try to educate me on my subject. I exercise compasion for that sort of thing when the person truly is clueless and I look carefully for anything that I can learn otherwise.