Actually, the "Progressive" mindset prevalent in the Western World today is extremely taken with their "intellectual qualities".
Just look at how their most over used hate rant against President Bush was their claim of his "stupidity", and how the most often cited quality of Obama is his "intelligence"--though there is scant support for such a claim other than his considerable ability to manipulate the willing.
They rate their own intelligence and that of anyone who agrees with them on par with the greatest minds in history.
Yet they have, as you point out, an arrested adolescence which is so glaring that their oblivious ignorance of it is laughable to those not under the spell of the Liberal disease.
This is but one of the contradictions of logic to be found in every one of the doctrines of their faith to which they demand strict allegiance, else you be branded a stupid hater.
Very well put!
Ayn Rand would have said the” Progressive” mindset is irrational, though, and bereft of intellectual qualities, although they look down their noses at anyone who believes in Objective Truth and reason.
LOL....arrested adolescence....such a great description of all these people who try to sexualize children and “liberate sex” as if licentiousness was the same as freedom. To kill the human element —the soul— and pretend all we are are “trousered apes” with instincts that have to be acted on with no restraint. They are so narcissistic and vain, it is breathtaking.
This reducing all to sexual acts is the result of bitter, loveless, empty lives trying to avoid their imminent death. They worship themselves with years of plastic surgery, teen dress, and other deceptions to make it seem like their little “utopia” of dysfunction will never end in death. I have to laugh when I observe the pathetic efforts of these useless idiots who waste their lives with meaningless activities to fill up the void that can never be filled......that in the end causes ugliness, depression and loneliness. Their life is a pathetic waste of time.