Arriving today. I'll have my highlighter handy to give anarchic pronomian Platonist criticism of the Nietzschean statist antinomian assessment. If I have any contentions, I'll post them under this as a 🧵

Nothing within the city, everything outside the city, everyone against the city.
The first thing I'll say before I begin, without any context, is that I think both perspectives are actually valid according to the doxa of their worldviews. They are self-consistent: the antinomian statist slave with a ruler and the pronomian freeman anarchist without a ruler. The Confucian and the Taoist are Yin and Yang: two sides of one coin. Competition between these two doxai, I think, produces a healthy agonistic Golden Mean between them. Both despise what they see as tyranny, but they most often see each other as the main tyranny. In a grander context, this fight from both sides against their definition of their their opposite produces the flower of history in its middle.

Interesting that Abe no Seimei is portrayed as villainous in some depictions, and beneficent in others. Onmyoudo is a fascinating syncretic occult tradition, but clearly there are those who see either as evil sorcery and those who see it as good-natured mysticism. But, I guess it comes down to the idea that such a thing could be used for either purpose, and there’s always a fear of not knowing which. Many places in Europe have long had an analogous dualistic attitude when it comes to harming and possessing vs. healing and exorcising arts.