This is what happens when a mildly un-hinged former Marine, Ivy Leaguer, and university professor bags it all for a surfboard and a sleeping bag in the back of an ancient pickup truck just to follow the waves.
If he had really studied anything he wouldn't be a world-class screw-up. Wish he'd read some history but, you know, stuff like that and philosophy is for the lazy. Really, really a jerk.