They connect it to Plato's Republic via BAP & none of them have read Plato's "The Law" or Nomos. This is how they call it "Trad" -- as the Republic explicitly argues in favor of a eugenic council controlling a polity through "the noble lie" ie: a myth.
https://twitter.com/ACPKyleS/status/1863800333019062744
Plato backed off of this sort of idealism/utopianism in his later works after trying to implement them in reality in Syracuse where he almost lost his life in the courtier intrigue of Dionysus I-- leading Plato to reassess the more "common sense" political practices of his native Athens.
This was a big split in the discourse years ago with myself taking up the Kojevian position against the Straussian-turn of frog-twitter. The Schmittians sat in the middle, as they do to this day-- the great irony of theirs being their inability to determine their friends from enemies...
You see-- the real question is-- Truth or Myth?
Myth is preferred to Truth by most people. Truth is painful, Myth is "vitalistic." Delusional people are generally happier than serious people. People would prefer a Myth that makes them feel good to a Truth that makes them feel bad.
Myth is preferred to Truth by most people. Truth is painful, Myth is "vitalistic." Delusional people are generally happier than serious people. People would prefer a Myth that makes them feel good to a Truth that makes them feel bad.
There is no self-generated mythos about myself-- I'm just who I am. Myths have been created about me & proliferated, so that I can be scapegoated with impunity. All I can do here is be tortured by others & simply stand still.
"Aren't you the guy who pretended to read a book that doesn't exist?"
"The book exists."
"..."
"The book exists."
"..."
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