re: #809 Guanxi88

Not to hijack the thread, but Strauss pointed this out - the best minds of the 20th century fell into Nazism lock stock and barrel. It wasn’t necessarily that Nazism was so compelling as it was that modern thought was so weak and impure. Heidegger, a staggering demi-god of intelligence, was a hard-core Nazi well after the end of the war.

Strauss noticed it, others did too: something went horribly wrong in Western thought some time ago.

and H.G. Wells too… thought that fascism was the way forward.

see the Jonah Goldberg book “Liberal Fascism”