amazing that people still believe that an undergrad education either turns you into Napoleon or R2D2
My personal experience on this is extremely lopsided: it's rare for me to encounter a non-techie who doesn't fawn embarrassingly at me when I tell them what my academic background is (physics) or gush over how smart and good at math I must be, etc., while on the other hand I hear from engineer peers all the time about how non-techies are dumb, incompetent, play politics, etc.
It's just as suspect to me as it probably is to you. Humanities is just as susceptible to building castles in the air as software engineering, flights of intellectual fantasy about how the world ought to be. Difference is, when humanities makes a mistake, you get fascism or communism, rather than crashing code or broken bridges.