going to give this a shot in 15m but feel free to jump in with corrections and expansions https://t.co/5TzYoEct2v
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Just tell him to read Persecution and the Art of Writing.
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But the extent to which Strauss himself practiced esoteric writing is oh so debatable.
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I wonder to what extent the idea that he did is founded on a modern conflation of deep theoretical discussion with purposeful misdirection.
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That is, I wonder if what some people take for esoteric teaching is just writing that they can't fully understand.
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(My esoteric meaning is that some people are reading books that they were never meant to read.)
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In my whippersnapper years I wrote an Amazon review of Thoughts on Machiavelli. It's not great, but I still agree with the fifth paragraph. https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2N0TS2X4CIVLH/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0226777022 …
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This was a really fun read and you have obviously spent several orders of magnitude more time thinking carefully about Strauss than I have :)
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Thanks. I had a bit of an obsession for a few years.
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