Instead of harmonizing literary, scientific and technical modes of thought and being carriers of wisdom and beauty, most of today’s universities foster scientific and economic dogmatism. Instead of being imaginative agents, they are in danger of becoming mere industrial and market agents. A century ago, Alfred North Whitehead warned his readers for the danger of the spiritual bankruptcy that lies at the basis of today’s craziness of collective human behaviour, but unfortunately most academics do not share Whitehead’s concerns, nor his wisdom. Instead of responding to the global ecological crisis humanity faces today, universities generally ignore this crisis and accept the status quo by sticking to their business as usual, even if that leads to large-scale self-destruction.