Form: Short Note

COULD I PURSADE CHARLES MURRAY? I THINK SO.

Not that I’m of peer standing with Charles Murray, but I am still probably the most innovative political philosopher today, certainly the most nomocratic, and I seem to have a significant influence on the the alt-right.

And I would love to talk with Charles about how these questions might alter his position:

1) the (empirical) possibility of the classical liberal “Aristocracy of Everyone”,

2) whether truthfulness can be restored to political discourse if that project is impossible.

3) whether representative government is demonstrably a ‘good’ (benefit or harm).

4) whether intellectuals, politicians, financiers, merchants, or warriors, have the best record in the presidency. And what form of persuasive language that they use.

5) whether when someone like Trump speaks he is using Hyperbole to exaggerate intertemporal contrasts, in the long tradition of generals (conservatives), it is preferable to using the language of ideology, philosophy, and law, to prevaricate on verbalisms regardless of consequences (progressives).

Because you see, trump talks like a general of old. And that is what the male population is resonating with. And all the intellectuals in the world do not realize that the left has succeeded in ostracizing the military and our generals from politics.

Leaving us only with public intellectuals(priests) and politicians. The warrior is gone from our lives, and we long for him.

We long for a world of clear actions and cautious limits intent on conserving capital, not encouraging words and optimistic beliefs intent encouraging hyper-consumption regardless of consequences.

In the end we all die. But in the end, truth, science, arts, our civilization, culture and kin can die with us.