A sufficiently complex society cannot be governed with “wisdom” anymore than it can be with “science”. We’ve learned to be suspicious (too suspicious?) of authoritarian-high-modernist Taylorist scientism, but we haven’t yet learned to be wary of Straussian wisdomtism.
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You assume homeostatic gridlock as “normal” and look for opportunities to conduct equilibrium-jumping experiments with low downside. You won’t look wise, scientific, or like a crook doing this. You’ll look like you’re gamely trying to get lucky without making things worse.
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Beyond Will Durant & Gulag adventurism, my knowledge of philosophers & their stories is amateurish. wiki-grokked Strauss: He liked cities(Athens:Reason/ Jerusalem:Revelation) + "great books" + I'm assuming "eminent men". He disliked Popper immensely I need to revisit Popper.
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