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Peter Thiel als durchgeknallter Philosoph und klassisch platonischer Puppet-Master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wTr0fXQ5c4

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Peter Thiel als durchgeknallter Philosoph und klassisch platonischer Puppet-Master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wTr0fXQ5c4

#Weltstaat #GlobaleEliten #Weltherrschaft #Weltverschwörung #Aristokratie #Autoritarismus #Liberalismus #Palantir #ElonMusk #Musk #Thiel #PeterThiel #Elites #Influence #Philosophy #Philosopher #Theory #Armaggedon #AntiChrist #USA #Politics #LeoStrauss #Rich #Privilege #Privileged #Hell #HighwayToHell #Mankind #WorldState #Hierarchy #Authoritarian #Dictator #Tyrant #Democracy #Demokratie

Peter Thiel als durchgeknallter Philosoph und klassisch platonischer Puppet-Master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wTr0fXQ5c4

#Weltstaat #GlobaleEliten #Weltherrschaft #Weltverschwörung #Aristokratie #Autoritarismus #Liberalismus #Palantir #ElonMusk #Musk #Thiel #PeterThiel #Elites #Influence #Philosophy #Philosopher #Theory #Armaggedon #AntiChrist #USA #Politics #LeoStrauss #Rich #Privilege #Privileged #Hell #HighwayToHell #Mankind #WorldState #Hierarchy #Authoritarian #Dictator #Tyrant #Democracy #Demokratie

@crookedfootball.bsky.social

Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/trump-allan-bloom-republicans.html

In part, the horror at Trump's "nihilism" expressed in this piece reflects a split amongst followers of Leo Strauss, with "West Coast" Straussians being fully on board with Trump, while "East Coast" - "Chicago" would be a more accurate designation - Straussians like this author tending towards something between political quietism and chastened neoconservatism.

I am not a conservative, still less a Straussian, but I have found that one can have interesting conversations with East Coasters. The West Coasters have become apologists for the worst excesses of fascism US style.

To a scholar from the UK where Straussianism is academically insignificant, the disagreement must seem bizarre - a clash between advocates of US exceptionalism at its most virulent and people whose intellectual growth ended with the final episode of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" - but it matters here, so just take it as a sign of how different the US is from the UK .

I mentioned the difference between Harry Jaffa/West Coasters and Allan Bloom/East Coasters and the effect this might have on university liberal arts programs in this post here:

https://c.im/@jemmesedi/113535738436612948

#USConservatism #LeoStrauss #WestCoastStruassianism #EastCoastStraussianism

As the Austin Chronicle article notes, there are grounds to believe the School of Civic will suck resources out of existing institutions for research and teaching in the liberal arts at UT.

Don't be fooled by the pretense that this is merely about reviving study of "Great Books".

UT already has a center where undergraduates can undertake the study of core texts and ideas of the western tradition under the direction of a leading Straussian scholar, Tom Pangle:

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/

I suspect that Rufo et al. are unhappy with this center because Pangle is an East Coast Straussian, not a West Coast Straussian; see this Jeet Heer article for the distinction between these two currents of Straussian thought:

https://newrepublic.com/article/140933/failure-pro-trump-intellectualism

#Texas #UniversityOfTexasAtAustin #UTAustin #SchoolOfCivicLeadership
#ThomasJeffersonCenter #ThomasPangle #LeoStrauss #AmericanConservatism #PoliticalThought

"The joyless quest for joy."
an iconic characterization & critique of modern liberalism & materialism, taken from #LeoStrauss discussion of #JohnLocke, in Natural Rights and History, 1953.
https://archive.org/details/naturalrighthis00stra/page/251/mode/1up?view=theater&q=%22Life+is+the+joyless+quest+for+joy.%22
Noted by @stephendeide in essay on #homelessness & political theory
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