Quite a number of other people have, too -- many academics apparently would apparently prefer being humiliated or their work destroyed to making an alliance with someone who has proven he actually can save a liberal arts college!
Reality just doesn't have a good reputation these days... Fantasists are unfortunately still waxing eloquent...
Forgive me for being so one-track, but is there is an excess on the other end of things as well. Rufo is, after all, one among the many conservative sophisticates with a platform who has done zip, zilch, nada, nothing to end the conservative side of the Suppression of the extensive Covid-vax harms and related system-ic crimes. He has the excuse (limited, and arguably expired) of existing duties to his important causes and programs, but most other conservatives do not have even this.
And yes, the participation in this Suppression, while it seems to be tactical prudence, politeness, and wise acceptance--in some arenas--of the way things are, ultimately is a kind of mendacity, that requires one's own participation, so that the toll it cumulatively takes on one's soul cannot but become a real one. So beware this oh-so knowing "use" of Machiavelli and Nietzsche for the sake of conservative ends! Especially at this moment. Beware of what you think it justifies. Beware of how, while it promises to give you the allure of hidden depths, it usually makes one like all the rest: disgustingly flexible. The young men and women pant in the desert, and finally come to the oasis of the sages, and what do they find? Largely-dry fountains shaped like tight-lipped Sphinxes, which only dribble out enough water for merest survival.
Rufo has said that "For me, the future of conservatism carries life-and-death ramifications for America as a whole." And I say "Amen," but also this: "Beware, for souls shrivel."
he horizon of action is, will we or nil we, the felt needs & the hopes of success of the people who act. So from the practical point of view, the problem is not the one-track mind or one-issue politics, it's the lack of track or of issue -- you have to get the book out, get to grips with the followers & the leaders. Whether your methods are sufficiently artful or not will be judged in that context.
I didn't know the Frey had pitted herself against Rufo.
Quite a number of other people have, too -- many academics apparently would apparently prefer being humiliated or their work destroyed to making an alliance with someone who has proven he actually can save a liberal arts college!
Reality just doesn't have a good reputation these days... Fantasists are unfortunately still waxing eloquent...
Forgive me for being so one-track, but is there is an excess on the other end of things as well. Rufo is, after all, one among the many conservative sophisticates with a platform who has done zip, zilch, nada, nothing to end the conservative side of the Suppression of the extensive Covid-vax harms and related system-ic crimes. He has the excuse (limited, and arguably expired) of existing duties to his important causes and programs, but most other conservatives do not have even this.
And yes, the participation in this Suppression, while it seems to be tactical prudence, politeness, and wise acceptance--in some arenas--of the way things are, ultimately is a kind of mendacity, that requires one's own participation, so that the toll it cumulatively takes on one's soul cannot but become a real one. So beware this oh-so knowing "use" of Machiavelli and Nietzsche for the sake of conservative ends! Especially at this moment. Beware of what you think it justifies. Beware of how, while it promises to give you the allure of hidden depths, it usually makes one like all the rest: disgustingly flexible. The young men and women pant in the desert, and finally come to the oasis of the sages, and what do they find? Largely-dry fountains shaped like tight-lipped Sphinxes, which only dribble out enough water for merest survival.
Rufo has said that "For me, the future of conservatism carries life-and-death ramifications for America as a whole." And I say "Amen," but also this: "Beware, for souls shrivel."
he horizon of action is, will we or nil we, the felt needs & the hopes of success of the people who act. So from the practical point of view, the problem is not the one-track mind or one-issue politics, it's the lack of track or of issue -- you have to get the book out, get to grips with the followers & the leaders. Whether your methods are sufficiently artful or not will be judged in that context.