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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Ah, return of the “noble lie”
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But complicated patriotism isn’t allowed.
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may we culturally evolve to the point that emotional attachments extend to groupings of people we know and are bound in webs of egalitarian reciprocity (dynamic "tribes" of 50-200 people) & then all else is mere instrumentation. a state is a tool. no one worships their hammer.
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No they are not. It leads to a decay in that society for scepticism will not hold a community together. It leads to nihilism. This is why Strauss never wrote about Heidegger. He saw what happened to Germany and knew this could happen to USA. He thought belief in founding would
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Be enough to resist it. Instead the "left" embraced it and now so have the "right". This is despite not because of Strauss. He tried to innovate but it was too late and weaker minds wanted political power and relevance and " fame" so we have the turgid slop that is Trumpism.
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Natural equality is rooted in theology. That’s what Strauss meant by “noble lie.” So, you want to throw that out?
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I think you are making this unnecessarily sinister. Historicism didn't hit the 19th c. all at once. It was gradual. Historians never believed those myths. They were promulgated by teachers of rhetoric & advertisers. In Humanistic pedagogy history was supposed to be edifying.
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History for the young, at any rate.
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Very much this. As with many things, Nietzsche's insights are quite piercing.
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