The real paradox I still can't get around is how Leo Strauss, a product of the early 20th century classics obsessed German education system who had real doubts about modernity & enjoined the close reading of difficult texts, spawned a school of USA! USA! MAGA-heads.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Perhaps one way of resolving this "paradox" is to accept that nothing like this ever occurred.
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Replying to @olivertraldi @HeerJeet
What part of Jeet’s narrative do you reject? Does seem like there is a line of descent from Strauss to the Claremont Review crew
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Replying to @EricLevitz @HeerJeet
Well, I often enjoy the Claremont Review crew, and don't think they're "MAGA-heads" or really anything else-heads, so maybe that's where the disagreement lies.
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In general the left's classifications and genealogies of right-wing thought are insane. Because it's considered impossible to think that there might be anything natural, intuitive, or plausible about any right-wing position, there always have to be these elaborate stories.
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Replying to @olivertraldi @HeerJeet
Interesting. I think there's plenty of bad leftwing writing about the right/failures to "steelman" or whathaveyou. But I think a lot of Marxist and progressive analysis actually stipulates that rightwing premises are intuitive...
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...because we live in a hierarchical society in which dominant groups enjoy outsize influence over culture and thus common sense, and/or because on the level of the individual worker, embracing the ethos of capitalistic self-help is often rational
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That's exactly how I understand the right, with the stipulation that the contradictions within existing society also force people to come up with ideologies to reconcile divergent intuitions. In any case I'm curious about what part here is wrong:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-the-deep-roots-of-gop-extremism …
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