LEPROSY OF THE MIND

“This appraisal is what Simone Weil calls 'group morality, which forbids critical assessment and which, because it is literally 'beyond good and evil', is considered to be justice itself. Relating it to other forms of idolatry', she further defines it as the phenomenon of 'setting aside: in other words, the relationships between things which normally convey relative status on them are suppressed. It is a phenomenon particularly associated with the collective, with the kind of patriotism that one has towards a country, or a party, or a Church. Everything that is covered with the prestige of the collective is set aside and removed from certain relationships.”

J.P. Little, Waiting On Truth. 69.

At other points in her writing Weil calls this “leprosy of the mind” where one, rather than thinking, simply takes sides.