[MD] anti-intellectualism

[X Acto]

Biological quality is necessary to the survival of life. But when it threatens to dominate and destroy 
society, biological quality becomes evil itself, the 'Great Satan' of twentieth-century Western culture. 
One reason why fundamentalist Moslem cultures have become so fanatic in their hatred of the West is 
that it has released the biological forces of evil that Islam has fought for centuries to control.
What the Metaphysics of Quality indicates is that the twentieth-century intellectual faith in man's 
basic goodness as spontaneous and natural is disastrously naive. The ideal of a harmonious society 
in which everyone without coercion cooperates happily with everyone else for the mutual good of 
all is a devastating fiction.
Lila ch23
What the Metaphysics of Quality concludes is that the old Puritan and Victorian social codes should 
not be followed blindly, but should not be attacked blindly either. They should be dusted off and 
re-examined, fairly and impartially, to see what they were trying to accomplish and what they 
actually did accomplish toward building a stronger society. We must understand that when a 
society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, 
but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally 
good. These moral bads and goods are not just 'customs.' They are as real as rocks and 
trees. The destructive sympathy by intellectuals toward lawlessness in the sixties and 
since is derived, no doubt, from what is perceived to be a common enemy, the social system. 
But the Metaphysics of Quality concludes that this sympathy was really stupid. The decades 
since the sixties have borne this out.
Lila ch23
 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, never undercut it. 
Where biological values are undermining social values, intellectuals must identify social behavior, 
no matter what its ethnic connection, and support it all the way without restraint. 
Intellectuals must find biological behavior, no matter what its ethnic connection, 
and limit or destroy destructive biological patterns with complete moral ruthlessness, 
the way a doctor destroys germs, before those biological patterns destroy civilization itself.
-Lila ch23