I made up a term: dark straussian
Regular straussians think it’s okay to lie to people for their own good because they’re mostly stupid
Dark straussians think it’s okay to take advantage of people because they’re mostly suckers
Neither has much use for consent-of-governed
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Is Catholicism straussian? What if the pope gets infected and starts believing himself? Is it straussian if there are hermetic layers and everyone who is not stupid discovers the inner ones?
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Dunno enough about Catholicism but oks it from the outside. Hermetic... depends on the relationship to political power no?
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A lot of countries, including the US, seem to be hermetic straussian
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