On the Onslaught of Sloth

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“Anti-intellectualism gives rise to the most extreme, the most morally deplorable, form of sloth. It is to be found in persons for whom the ultimate objectives in life are the maximization of pleasure, money, fame, or power and who, thus motivated, express their contempt for those who waste their lives in purely intellectual pursuits. It is almost as if they wished they did not have the burden of having intellects that might distract them from their fanatical devotion to nonintellectual aims.

It is man's glory to be the only intellectual animal on earth. That imposes upon human beings the moral obligation to lead intellectual lives. The slothful are blind to the glory and neglectful of the obligation.” — Mortimer J. Adler

Mortimer Adler's sage insights, excerpted above, presaged the onslaught known as Bamalamadingdong, depicted below. The payment to the Pied Piper of No-account Nation will amount to more than pocket change.