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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Explanations like that still don't concede that right-wing ideas might be rational in the sense of true, accurate, or just--they just say right-wing ideas are rational in the sense that adopting them might serve somebody's self-interest, or what they perceive to be their interest
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Replying to @xchrisgonz @EricLevitz and
And I think Oliver was thinking of rationality in the former rather than the latter sense
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Not even true, but true-seeming in a way that isn't self-serving.
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Everyone thinks their ideas are true and most people (aside from those who believe selfishness is inherent & good) think their ideas are more than self-serving. But that doesn't mean an outsider has to accept that every idea as true and disinterested.
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