People dominated by intellect gradually become more and more atrophied
"Even if a 'religious' administration does not itself create disasters, it will not be able to prevent them from occurring for long. What happens with the priests is that [intellect] is given a higher valuation than the application of physical force. Thus under a religious administration others work to enhance the priests’ prestige and to maintain the priests’ standard of living, while the priests use their intellect to live an unbalanced life and to suck the vitality of others like parasites. Where there is more physical clash in life, physical force will increase faster than intellect or the expression of intellect, and likewise, where there is much psychic clash, there will be only the expression of intellect, coupled with a gradual but eventually severe increase in physical indolence. From a psychological point of view, people dominated by intellect in this way gradually become more and more atrophied, so that whatever magnanimity exists at the beginning of the Priest Age is lost by the end of the age. The end result of this lack of magnanimity is that the capitalists become dominant in society. At the beginning of the Priest Age the clergy provide advice about how to protect society as well as how to exploit it; they also take advice from others about how to protect and exploit it. But by the end of the Priest Age the priests/clergy only give advice but no longer accept it, and the advice they give concerns only how to exploit."
Shrii Prabhat R. Sarkar
