| | Actually, "the most lethal form" of non-integration is a lie. This is a typical inept Peikoff quote. I don't know the context, but this ridiculous paragraph is over-reaching in thought and ham-handed in style, with the usual cultist subtext and atmosphere. This virtually worthless paragraph is characterized by bullying, arrogance, fatuity, general menace, and loose talk essentially conveying nothing. But give Lenny-boy credit: It still manages to be poorly expressed, hard to follow, and worthless and unpleasant to read. This poor, unfocused, rambling, ramshackle quote is good maybe for brainwashing someone, or stilling human curiosity, or crushing a free spirit, or killing the fun of intellectual adventure and searching. But it is not good for thinking or understanding or gaining insight and wisdom.
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By its nature, evasion is a form of nonintegration. It is the most lethal form: the willful disintegration of mental contents. A man in this condition no longer has the means to determine consistency or contradiction, truth or falsehood. In his conciousness, all conceptual content is reduced to the capricious, the baseless, the arbitrary; no conclusion qualifies as knowledge in a mind that rejects the requirements of cognition. Thus the real evader, like the hypothetical one I mentioned first, reaches only one end and one kind of "safety": all-encompassing blindness.
