1. This is a good thread and inspires some thoughts on Leo Strauss, James Burnham, the Simpsons, Lisa Simpson, Jebediah Springfield, & Carl Jung. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1164297549869658112 …
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7. This is tangential but a large strand of rightwing thought in last century (the line from Jung to Campbell to Peterson) has pursued the argument that myths are essential for social life, It's not the natural law argument of past but explicit embrace of myth.
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8. But contra Strauss, Burnham & Lisa Simpson, I'm not sure that a noble lie is necessary. It's my democratic conviction that people are smart enough to have a complicated patriotism, that acknowledges both the achievements and crimes of the past.
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a noble lie embiggens the smallest polity
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@mattyglesias Maybe we should stop constructing fictitious nations cc@jtlevy -
It’s not fiction or nonfiction. True mythology transcends empirical facts: it is the emotional reality of communal experience, which lives only so long as the shared emotion survives.
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Jeet is banned from this historical society.
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Don't forget the further, Straussian complication that - a la that latest Anton BAP review you linked - maybe, secretly, vile pirates are what we need. But obviously we can't say that. So the myth doesn't cover the secret sins. It permits the secret virtues!
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You’re just teasing me. This is a grand allegory For the Shakespeare authorship question.
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