Costin Eats

big fan of MEN in the city by Leo Strauss

[Costin Eats @serialfabulist]

(1/10)

Solution:

Step one. Read Irving Kristol’s essay “The Neoconservative Persuasion” (2003)

In it he describes, in his own words, what neoconservatism is.

https://t.co/C6t1m0eUSL

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

What is your alternative? That's the real question here. If you think our strategy is bad, that we're cutting corrupt deals, what do you think is a better solution?

[Costin Eats @serialfabulist]

For those who are upset about the inclusion of rappers, lgbt, etc in the Christopher Nolan Odyssey film:

The academy awards now require not only on screen representation but also thematic engagement of certain “groups” within the story in order to qualify for an award.

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@escapefrommelos Nigga the ancient Greeks were gay

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@millerman This latest essay, taken with the Straussian moment, are strong rejections of Strauss, both regarding his academic and broader political projects:

[Carlyle College @carlylecollege]

There is also a fairly strong rejection of Strauss, Straussianism, and the general philosophical practice of obscurantist esoteric writing itself, probably intended by Thiel to distance himself from the exoteric interpretation of his other eschatological writing (that he is a Straussian).

Strauss believes (implicitly here) time continues on forever, and so philosophical writing has a very long timescale in which its “true” meaning can be transmitted and decoded by other potential philosophers. Elsewhere in this essay this belief is described as a “primordial heresy” linked to “Averroist Aristotelianism” and the reintroduction of Greek thought into the west.

From the last paragraph:

“We can excuse Benedict the academic for believing that his world would last forever, but for Benedict the Christian, it was a great error. ­Plato, Aristotle, and the philosophers who followed them wrote between the lines about the permanent questions. They wrote not only for their brilliant contemporaries, but for people who love to think in all times and places. They affirmed the eternity of the world and did not doubt that the future would bring new students with the intelligence and time to indulge in the very long, never easy, but always pleasant work of interpretation proper to a philosopher. But the Christian knows that nothing lasts forever, for this world has a beginning and an end. The apocalypse, the revelation of all secrets and the end of all interpretations, arrives eventually. There is a time and a place for esotericism, whose antonym is revelation. But not in matters concerning the fate of the world—and our souls. For when the time is short and the hour late, who can hope for ­salvation in philosophical reticence?”

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I have a conspiracy theory that Ellen Page started listening to Andy Shauf in early 2020 and then turned into him later that year

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@CityBureaucrat She had more rizz in her Andy Shauf era

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@CityBureaucrat She had more rizz in her Andy Shauf era

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Black guys when they score 127 iq

[The New York Times @nytimes]

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This is what I believe

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Sunday!!! At the Savonarola Dome!!! Bonfire of the Vanities!!!

[Hyperdimensional Hegelian Chaos Giga Wizard™️ @algxtradingx]

Nice, it’s good that she’s making progress here, but let me reiterate something.

Fuck Plato.

[Costin Eats @serialfabulist]

(10/10)

Henry VIII pursued a strategy of “deal making” and a “march through the institutions” via Wolsey and More.

It didn’t work and never does because of human nature.

What worked was the Cromwellian revealing, dissolution, and destruction of the monasteries.

Knot cut.

[Costin Eats @serialfabulist]

(6/10)

You will find Thiel’s essay is — aside from being astonishingly prescient about the motivation of states to pursue nuclear weapons for reasons of *status and envy* — itself laden with esoteric “Straussian” messages.

Consider the context here:

[Costin Eats @serialfabulist]

(9/10)

Once you have thought about these two essays for a long time (it took me a long time) I think it would be good to consider history.

The last time anyone extricated themselves successfully from this kind of situation it was Henry VIII…

[Costin Eats @serialfabulist]

(5/10)

Read it carefully. Ask yourself why Thiel, who had received funding from and apparently worked under the guidance of Irving Kristol (the most famous Straussian) while editor in chief of the Stanford Review, is writing headings like: “Leo Strauss: Proceed with Caution”

[Costin Eats @serialfabulist]

(4/10)

The next thing to do is to re-read Peter Thiel’s essay, which was written soon after Kristol’s 2003 piece, “The Straussian Moment” (2004)

[Costin Eats @serialfabulist]

(3/10) What the neocons offer is a political program that they design and control, with certain “red meat” social conservative promises wrapped in to secure “the base”. What they receive is carte blanche to use the power of the US military to settle their old ethnic rivalries.

[Costin Eats @serialfabulist]

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Solution:

Step one. Read Irving Kristol’s essay “The Neoconservative Persuasion” (2003)

In it he describes, in his own words, what neoconservatism is.

https://t.co/C6t1m0eUSL

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

What is your alternative? That's the real question here. If you think our strategy is bad, that we're cutting corrupt deals, what do you think is a better solution?

[Costin Eats @serialfabulist]

(2/10) While reading “The Neoconservative Persuasion” you will find that the stated aim of the neocons is to manipulate, mislead, constrain, and otherwise take advantage of the “old” “religious” American voter base in order to surreptitiously advance their own agenda.

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I choose both.

[Spergler Acolyte @SperglerAcolyte]

Straussian son or neoplatonist daughter?

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@oteycoueye You’re telling me Claude has a bussy mode?