QUOTES FROM PIRSIG that I take as evidence against anti-intellectualism, which
has infected a few MOQers.
"a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social
values is absolutely superior to one that does not."
"And this is a war in which intellect, to end the paralysis of society, has to
know whose side it is on, and support that side, and never undercut it."
"Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society, were
confronted by the reactionary forces of fascism, a program for the social
control of intellect. ... The gigantic power of socialism and fascism, which
have overwhelm this century, is explained by a conflict of levels of evolution."
"The gigantic power of socialism and fascism, which have overwhelmed this
century, is explained by a conflict of levels of evolution. This conflict
explains the driving force behind Hitler not as an insane search for power but
as an all-consuming glorification of social authority and hatred of
intellectualism. His anti-Semitism was fueled by anti-intellectualism. His
hatred of communists was fueled by anti-intellectualism. Hisexaltation of the
German volk was fueled by it. His fanatic persecution of any kind of
intellectual freedom was driven by it. In the United States the economic and
social upheaval was not so great as in Europe, but Franklin Roosevelt and the
New Deal, nevertheless, became the center of a lesser storm between social and
intellectual forces."
"...In a subject-object understanding of the world these terms have no meaning.
There is no such thing as "human rights." There is no such thing as moral
reasonableness. There are subjects and objects and nothing else. ..This soup
of sentiments about logically nonexistent entities can be straightened out by
the Metaphysics of Quality. It says that what is meant by "human rights" is
usually the moral code of intellect-vs-society, the moral right of intellect to
be free of social control. Freedom of speech; freedom of assembly, of travel;
trial by jury; habeas corpus; government by consent—these "human rights" are
all intellect-vs-society issues. According to the Metaphysics of Quality these
"human rights" have not just a sentimental basis, but a rational, metaphysical
basis. They are essential to the evolution of a higher level of life from a
lower level of life. They are for real."
QUOTES from Wikipedia:
"Anti-intellectualism is hostility towards and mistrust of intellect,
intellectuals, and intellectual pursuits, usually expressed as the derision of
education, philosophy, literature, art, and science, as impractical and
contemptible."
"Anti-intellectualism is a common facet of totalitarian dictatorships to
oppress political dissent. The Nazi party's populist rhetoric featured
anti-intellectual rants as a common motif, including Adolf Hitler's political
polemic, Mein Kampf."
"Critics have alleged that much of the prevailing philosophy in American
academia (i.e., postmodernism, poststructuralism, relativism) are
anti-intellectual: 'The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter
by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives
is -- second only to American political campaigns -- the most prominent and
pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time'.”
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