- it closely tracks Hobbes's account, which is usu taken as his descriptive account of the individual psyche - it isn't. H was describing what the psyche of the typical individual citizen/subject of the state would *have* to be in order to achieve political stability under it
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oh no no, Straussian-*adjacent*, maybe, but by dumb luck and geographical accident, & never quite drank the kool-aid anyway even when I was indisputably *socially* implicated in the local Straussian cabal
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the Student Philosophical Society's Minister of Defense was the head of the Straussian student cabal, I was just the roommate and loyal opposition and/or advocatus diaboli (also SPS Minister of Culture)
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