Is "intellectual honesty" a spook?

It can be. Though why someone would make it spooky is beyond me.

No it's actually the opposite of a spook

>>1849836
Absolutely. It is an immaterrial thing you allow to have power over you. It is a spook par excellance.

>>1849888
Pretty spooked desu senpai

>>1849836
Do not think that I am jesting or speaking figuratively when I regard those persons who cling to the Higher, and (because the vast majority belongs under this head) almost the whole world of men, as veritable fools, fools in a madhouse. What is it, then, that is called a “fixed idea”? An idea that has subjected the man to itself. When you recognize, with regard to such a fixed idea, that it is a folly, you shut its slave up in an asylum. And is the truth of the faith, say, which we are not to doubt; the majesty of (e.g.) the people, which we are not to strike at (he who does is guilty of — lese-majesty); virtue, against which the censor is not to let a word pass, that morality may be kept pure; — are these not “fixed ideas”? Is not all the stupid chatter of (e.g.) most of our newspapers the babble of fools who suffer from the fixed idea of morality, legality, Christianity, etc., and only seem to go about free because the madhouse in which they walk takes in so broad a space? Touch the fixed idea of such a fool, and you will at once have to guard your back against the lunatic’s stealthy malice. For these great lunatics are like the little so-called lunatics in this point too — that they assail by stealth him who touches their fixed idea. They first steal his weapon, steal free speech from him, and then they fall upon him with their nails. Every day now lays bare the cowardice and vindictiveness of these maniacs, and the stupid populace hurrahs for their crazy measures. [...]

[...] Undislodgeable, like a madman’s delusion, those thoughts stand on a firm footing, and he who doubts them — lays hands on the sacred! Yes, the “fixed idea,” that is the truly sacred!

>tfw the lunatic's stealthy malice compels them to shitpost about you more than a century later

>>1850023
>you're a lunatic if you think "intellectual honesty" is spooky
It's a completely spooky concept except maybe is the most basic and practical of things, like how to fix something that's broken. Philosophy and especially ideological, but even scientific pursuit, will always contain massive elements of bias and agenda. This is why Nietzsche found the odor of "objective" so offensive.