uses his academia to rationalize his chauvinism. And you don't even know he's doing it. He is that good. Smart, too. He's sort of the opposite of the Colonel. Where the Colonel is dim-witted and devout; Phillip is brilliant and irreverent. But you don't even mind because when he walks through the door of truth he is able to solve our political problems with a compromise that is so absurd it borders on brilliance. Wait, maybe he's the genius.