Damn, hadn’t read this. This is basically C. S. Lewis 1944 edition of my Gervais principle, but with reco that you aspire to a sort of conscious cluelessness (“craftsman”) and avoid sociopathy because it a) tempts you into being a “scoundrel” and b) sucks you towards nihilismhttps://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1320449302129500160 …
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This is well worth reading as a counterpoint in the genre. I was actually looking for it earlier to add to the thread but had forgotten the ref. tldr of this: real inner circles (Ie informational) as a burden of being misunderstood you are not free to clear up. Much Straussian.https://twitter.com/calcsam/status/1320540431298502659 …
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I think he'd say that choosing carefully who you spend time with is essential; but the desire to belong, and to be special, can lead people to do awful things. Warning about the latter doesn't mean he disregards the former.
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I recommend Joel Stein's book "In Defense of Elitism"
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Do you have a sense of how your advice might have been different had you written it in 1944?
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Not really. But being religious makes him much more different than being from another era.
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I think Lewis would wholeheartedly endorse your praise of Boyd in https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa593&id=ec0af280d3 … and see it as a wonderful example of the value of prioritizing principles and craft.
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