When ideology is your religion and truth becomes just a matter of opinion, anything goes.  "There is great danger when lies are institutionalized as truth."

In his new book, Intellectual Morons, Daniel Flynn provides us with abundant examples of dangerous ideas and beliefs that intellectual "gurus" can dream up and convince others to embrace.  He exposes a number of cognitive elites whose dangerous and "idiotic theories, beliefs, and opinions" have attained mythological status without an objective and rational analysis of the origins and implications of their ideologies.  Flynn lifts the veil of secrecy and ignorance surrounding these individuals and gives the reader a clear and sobering look into the madness and hypocrisy lurking in the minds and pasts of these demagogues.

Flynn reveals the intellectual dishonesty and duplicity across the ideological spectrum.  He correctly identifies that lack of rational thought and ignorance of the truth are the problem, not political leanings.  With such a large volume of lunacy coming from the Left however, he cannot be faulted for including many more examples of leftist idiocy in his analysis.

Meticulously documented the book includes ample evidence of the "crackpot fringe."  Their ideas span the spectrum of folly, from claiming "earthworms are far more valuable that people" and denying the communist-created Cambodian genocide, to calling America the most evil and oppressive nation on earth and comparing the killing of chickens to a human Holocaust.

Chief among the intellectual elites the book discusses is Herbert Marcuse, a devout communist, who preached that "freedom is totalitarianism, democracy is dictatorship, education is indoctrination, violence is nonviolence, and fiction is truth."  Marcuse wrote, "there is no such thing as a purely scientific order" and maintained that "senses distort reality by portraying reality as that which is experienced," which makes men incapable of visualizing the "Marxist utopia" he promoted.  Anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that Marcuse's proclamations were categorically insane.  Sadly, his philosophies are alive and well on most college campuses and his works are required reading in many universities.

An advocate of "abortion for any reason at any time," Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, is also exposed for the lunatic she was.  She supported terrorism and "passionately advocated assassination, bombings, and even the overthrow of the U.S. government."  Sanger also shared some of Hitler's philosophies.  She was an "early eugenics backer" and championed the elimination of "human weeds" from society through sterilization, unfettered abortion, and segregation.  Don't expect to find such revealing information in most sanitized accounts of Sanger's life.  Nothing can stand in the glorious path of the unlimited abortion movement and taint the reputation of its "charismatic leader."

More sickening declarations spring forth from the mind of Peter Singer, bioethics professor at Princeton University, and passionate promoter of infanticide.  "When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed."  "Killing a snail or a day-old infant does not thwart any desires of this kind, because snails and new-born infants are incapable of having such desires."  Ultimately, Singer believes that parents should be allowed to kill their newborns within 28 days of birth.  One wonders what might have happened had Singer's parents practiced what he preaches.  Tragically entire countries have embraced such unimaginable evil.  First, the Netherlands put infanticide into practice, and recently Belgium was also toying with the idea.

The Singer revelations are not the worst of it.  "I congratulate you on the research spirit which has lead you to collect data over these many years," wrote Alfred Kinsey to Rex King, "everything that you've accumulated must find its way into scientific channels."  King was a serial child rapist who molested hundreds of children and provided Kinsey with "data" for years.  The depths of sickness and depravity Kinsey and his gang reached in their quest for notoriety are shocking.  Yes, this is the same Kinsey revered by the world of academia and recognized by many as a "hero of  science," whose research is considered "unimpeachable."

If these "postmodern" theories were just parodies, Flynn writes, "it might be something we could laugh at."  Unfortunately, this kind of thinking is rampant among scholars, and it is truly a "source of despair rather than humor."  Given the countless lives that have been and continue to be destroyed and corrupted by such false and demented theories, I also shudder at the evil they have wrought.

"For too long, intellectuals have been traveling briskly down the wrong paths, taking the rest of us along for the ride.  It’s time to get off and turn back, quickly."  Hopefully this book will open the eyes of many and shine a light of truth and reason.  In a world full of lies, hypocrisy, perversion, and deception, exposing lethal ideologies and helping lost souls turn back from the brink of chaos and hopelessness is indeed a worthy cause; much more so than telling them that totalitarianism is freedom, children are disposable, fiction is reality, falsehood is truth, and humans are weeds. 
 
Intellectual Morons is available on Amazon.com.

Chris Banescu is an attorney, university professor, and public speaker. He also manages the conservative site OrthodoxNet.com, writes articles, and has given talks and conducted seminars on a variety of business, cultural, and religious topics.

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