I'm not for a moment suggesting that all professional pilots behave like this. I'm just suggesting that there is a small minority who believe themselves to be superior gods in whose presence mere mortals should genuflect as they are not worthy to share the same planet. You see that small minority on here - they're the ones who always insist that they alone control the destiny of millions, and claiming they should get special treatment as a result. They constantly whine about the behaviour of everyone else but almost never look to their own behaviour.
It's this tiny minority who besmirch the reputation of all pilots; the vast majority of whom are normal, reasonable people. the normal, reasonable pilots should really take these self-important blow-hards behind the bike sheds and teach them how to behave.
It's actually quite funny, because in most fields of endeavour those who focus mostly on how important they are usually transpire to be those who are the worst at the job; the pretentious arrogance being a compensating comfort blanket.
PDR