Deinocrates

+ Summer fellowships Internships Seminars Lecture invitations This is all on top of the problem that at many schools departments of classics, philosophy, political science, and history have been so thoroughly barbarized and feminized that at many schools young men of any heart sense from the outset that taking courses in these subjects, to say nothing of majoring or pursuing graduate degrees and careers in these fields, won't be worth their time

In academia, the discrimination is compounded exponentially. Depending on identity: First, a boost or block in undergrad admissions Then grad admissions & fellowships Then faculty hiring Then tenure, promotion, & major prizes At each step boosts, blocks, & different standards

@PrinceVogel There are only eight here but it's so evocative of muses appearing to a shepherd-poet it seems worth mentioning en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream…

@scottyenor Great piece: "Each genuinely classical faculty member is a kind of miracle, surviving as a generalist in an age of extreme specialization and scientism" is spot on

We are five generations into the Progressive iteration of the university. We can begin to conduct a postmortem on its living body! Some real achievements, but humane learning is not one of them. link below

@jpserrabellver @Deinocrates thenewdigest.substack.com/p/law-skeptici…

Where is that footnote from? @deinocrates

@chiefofautism @apralky He looks so happy here. Before he learned about technological stagnation or the terrible esoteric truth of the scapegoat

@apralky true if big

this guy write manifestos about "power-maxxing" and collected 27k followers who all want the same thing he does - influence his theory: elites outsource thinking so become "epistemic slave" and get real power he figured out one thing: writing ABOUT influence attracts people who WANT influence. but that's the trap - actual decision makers don't read power-maxxing manifestos, they're too busy having power his handle handle (schmitt/land reference) + mao quotes + cynical analysis = signaling he's "in" on post-rat/acc discourse he built an mlm scheme for influence. selling the dream of power to people who want it but don't have it. might be profitable he writes that all "riffs" (ideologies) are masks for wanting power. his own riff is "i'm the guy who understands how power works." it's meta but still just content for wannabes compare to dwarkesh patel who he mentions: dwarkesh makes content FOR decision makers (interviews with tech leaders). this guy makes content ABOUT becoming a decision maker - for people who aren't cope network the 27k aren't elites who will outsource their thinking to him. they're other kids who read manifestos about influence while actual influential people are... doing things that matter peak silicon valley brain rot

I wonder if Rosen or anyone else talked about the fact that Strauss did teach Nietzsche (and more than once) at Chicago, even while he didn't teach Heidegger. Similarly he does, however quietly, name Nietzsche in his books but never Heidegger, as far as I can remember. For a teacher who is concerned about about forming his students or readers properly, I can understand avoiding both Nietzsche and Heidegger, but I don't see why he'd avoid Heidegger absolutely but not avoid Nietzsche. @ls_foundation do you have any thoughts on this?

Stanley Rosen on Strauss on Heidegger. If he (SR) was among "too young and too vulnerable," then the 150 undergrads mentioned below must be as well, right...?

@IqGroyper Tried to tell you a year ago

@nannersagain 💎

@Bossbabyonesie I agree in principle but I also think the Greeks had a sense of natural and rational proportions and did approach “the truth” more closely than any other style. I hope that we can surpass them but surpassing them will be based on studying them

@Bossbabyonesie We're building neoneoclassical glowingblue Atlantis and there's nothing you can do about it bucko

@DavidDecosimo Could you clarify or explain in more detail exactly what happened? It's difficult for a reader to evaluate what happened here or why. It sounds like you may be talking about specific disagreements among those who agree in the broad project of "civic schools"

I have been fired as Associate Dean of UNC's School of Civic Life & Leadership, without explanation & upon my return from parental leave. I have some thoughts on the future of the civic school movement & the possibility of university reform.🧵

@JonahDeforge I didn't know that, who is that?

@deinocratesarch Actually im going to amend that. We have at BYU a student of harvey mansfield and (christian) straussian. So probably more strauss than your average university.

"The founding fathers of modern philosophy . . . went so far as to assert that, just as the knowledge of each individual progresses in the course of his life, the knowledge of the whole human race necessarily advances from day to day, i.e., from generation to generation. In asserting this, they underrated the difference between inherited knowledge, i.e., the knowledge which one acquires in schools and universities, and independently acquired knowledge, i.e., knowledge acquired by a mature scholar. Thus it came to pass that inherited knowledge was given the same cognitive status as independently acquired knowledge. (Witness the phrase: the results of modern research.) Whereas, actually, inherited knowledge is hardly distinguishable from prejudice: inherited knowledge is, in the typical case, a collection of true prejudices. . . . In some cases, it so happens that what, to begin with, is supposed to be inherited knowledge or true prejudice proves to be an inherited error." Leo Strauss "Historicism" (1941 lecture)

@JonahDeforge Are they reading Strauss at BYU?

@deinocratesarch Love to see people Strauss-posting

@Vermeullarmine You should. I'm a political theorist in training and this recent footnote on Schmitt changed how I approach and understand him (and other writers)

I need to write a sustained essay on the many, many cases in which philosophers and political theorists have misunderstood figures like Bodin, Montesquieu, and Schmitt by reading them as though they were writing philosophy and political theory, whereas in fact they were jurists writing as jurists.

@mbrendan1 @pumpdotfun Hacked?

@PhilipDBunn I have the envy of a thousand suns

My office is contained in this picture.

@dyershand on it boss x.com/deinocratesarc…

Looooool.....someone get one of BAP's little Nietzschushkas in here so he can explain to this dumb cunt who Lou Salomé was.