Whether a song is uplifting or not is completely subjective. Intelligence has nothing to do with it… Sometimes even a perfect expression of despair in a song can be uplifting to the listener, for many reasons.
Whenever I’ve been at my lowest, for ex, the various versions of Dylan’s "Not Dark Yet" have always been a source of comfort.
Is it the embargo that prohibits fishermen in Cuba from fishing, farmers from harvesting, cubans from freely doing business? Is it also responsible for cubans getting beaten and imprisoned for thinking differently? Was it the embargo that destroyed every sugar mill in the country, textile factory, shoe factory, you name it?… The dictatorship is the one responsible for all these things.
I feel the same way but do agree there’s a general lack of respect for the field relative to other professions. Here’s another thread on the subject https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676651
Since you mentioned Einstein, it reminded me of a comment by Max Born on the subject, from the Born-Einstein letters:
“Einstein expressed over and over again the thought that one should not couple the quest for knowledge with a bread-and-butter profession, but
that research should be done as a private spare-time occupation. He himself wrote the first of his great treatises while earning his living as an employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. He believed that only in
this way could one preserve one's independence. What he did not consider, however, was the organizational rigidity
of almost all professions, and the importance which individual members of a profession attach to their work. No professional pride could develop
without it. To be able successfully to practice science as a hobby, one has
to be an Einstein.”