Question

I saw a talk/lesson by one of the great rabbis of the previous generation, of blessed memory, delivered in his yeshiva on Hanukkah, about the phrase “and commanded us” in the lighting of Hanukkah candles, even though He did not command us directly.
He elaborated on the commandment to obey the Sanhedrin sitting in Jerusalem, which rules on Jewish law, and on the obligation to follow them, etc.
After that he expanded on the idea of “Torah judgment” and argued that this applies specifically to someone who has understanding. And he claimed that someone who educates his students to raise large families without having a reasonable economic foundation, so that they will end up going door to door, relying on collections, shady arrangements, and stipends, is certainly included in the category of one who has no understanding and no Torah judgment, since first and foremost he has no understanding at all, etc.
And he was not satisfied until he demonstrated in the lesson what it means to bend down to a carcass in order to hear its opinion on the issues at hand.
It seems that he took the statement of the Sages about a Torah scholar who has no understanding — that a carcass is better than he is — in its plain and midrashic sense, without any softening whatsoever.
So my question is:
Isn’t this a matter of showing disrespect for the honor of Torah? After all, there is still Torah in a “great man” of this sort, isn’t there?
Can one really imagine that upon his death it would be permitted and proper to proclaim:
“The angels have triumphed over the mighty, and the holy ark has been taken captive”…
The funeral of the carcass…?