We know that criminals as a class -- luckily -- are significantly more stupid than the average human being. What about demons? After all, just how bright can a being be who abhors being?
Or, could it be that we're making the elementary mistake of attributing to demons what is more razomably occamable to plain old low IQ?
FJB, for example, is an idiot. Ah, but who is pulling his strings? More to the point, who is pulling theirs? Who's behind him, and what's behind them? How to explain Slow Joe's intelligent ventriloquists and slippery puppeteers?
Hard to say, being that quite intelligent people are easily as susceptible to demonic influence as anyone else, especially given their typical hubris, for pride is always a point of entry for our vertical antagonists.
Almost by definition a liberal is someone smarter than you are. After all, what else qualifies them to run your life?
True, they're also more virtuous than you are, but what fun is virtue signaling without the intellectual condescension? You rarely see one without the other, being that truth and goodness converge even in the inverted reality of the left. For as the Philosopher writes,
the intention of every man acting according to virtue is to follow the rule of reason, wherefore the intention of all the virtues is directed to the same end, so that all the virtues are connected together in the right reason of things to be done.... [T]he intention of the sinner is not directed to the point of straying from the path of reason (Thomas, emphases mine).
Oh. This is helpful. A few pages later he suggests -- after ruling out all the objections -- that "inordinate love of self is the cause of every sin." Which means that intelligence alone is only a sufficient cause, and requires the necessary cause of excessive self-regard.
Let's look for some more hints about how the demons roll.
There is in fact a correspondence between a subject's cognitive power and the degree of universality of the species that he utilizes. The greater the intellectual power, the more rarified and universal are the angelic species utilized (Bonino).
"Species" is a term of art referring to the concept which the intellect abstracts from the data of the senses.
Which suddenly reminds me of a very wisecrack by the Aphorist to the effect that The liberal mentality is an angelic visitor impervious to earthly experiences.
As usual, Dávila has nailed it, for the left is full of sweeping generalizations that perhaps make superficial sense until you realize they are wholly detached from the senses, AKA, from the real world.
Examples abound from the low-haranguing fruits of the left, but here are some of their greatest hits:
In America, poverty is the main cause of crime.
Blacks (apart from their behavior) are disproportionately victimized by police violence.
Women (because they are women) are subject to a "pay gap."
Intelligence tests do not reliably measure intelligence.
Printing too much money doesn't cause inflation.
Rent control doesn't cause housing shortages.
Minimum wage laws don't cause unemployment.
Celebrating sexual deviancy doesn't cause more of it.
There is empirical proof of manmade catastrophic climate change.
Defunding police will reduce crime. Just look!
Strict Gun control laws reduce crime. Just look!
"White privilege" actually exists.
As does the "Patriarchy."
Not forgetting "homophobia," "transphobia," and soon, "pedophobia."
All these illegal immigrants are obviously making California a better place to live.
Electric cars prove that Milton Friedman was wrong about free lunches.
That was a straight-up insurrection on January 6.
Sure, Nancy Pelosi is normal.
College makes you smarter.
Biden won the 2020 election fair & square.
This is a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.
Trump supporters are racists.
Every one of these is a naughty angel, being that each is a generalization with no connection to the empirical world. Rather, they're just dead -- or undead -- viral concepts in search of minds to host in order to propagate themselves.
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