Several weeks ago, I caught a short video clip of VDH saying this election is a "battle for civilization" - with Donald Trump representing the side of "civilization." (And MAGAs huffed about how terribly incendiary it was to say he threatened "democracy," not civilization itself.)
In case that's no weird enough, Hanson went on to say that…
Several weeks ago, I caught a short video clip of VDH saying this election is a "battle for civilization" - with Donald Trump representing the side of "civilization." (And MAGAs huffed about how terribly incendiary it was to say he threatened "democracy," not civilization itself.)
In case that's no weird enough, Hanson went on to say that Trump has the "talent to appeal to the better angels of our nature." Which is borderline insane, or maybe just across that border.
Calling Elon Musk an enricher of culture when he's credulously amplifying conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic tropes and Kremlin propaganda is almost as nutty.
I would cross out the 'borderlines' and 'almosts' in your comment - such analysis in TFP, et al., is hubris & Nihilism made flesh; the biblical language of Good and Evil is better suited to framing MAGA and tRump for what they truly represent. Morals and Ethics have been thrown off the Maga bus in favor of mere ambition, avarice, and pure animus.
Several weeks ago, I caught a short video clip of VDH saying this election is a "battle for civilization" - with Donald Trump representing the side of "civilization." (And MAGAs huffed about how terribly incendiary it was to say he threatened "democracy," not civilization itself.)
In case that's no weird enough, Hanson went on to say that Trump has the "talent to appeal to the better angels of our nature." Which is borderline insane, or maybe just across that border.
Calling Elon Musk an enricher of culture when he's credulously amplifying conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic tropes and Kremlin propaganda is almost as nutty.
I would cross out the 'borderlines' and 'almosts' in your comment - such analysis in TFP, et al., is hubris & Nihilism made flesh; the biblical language of Good and Evil is better suited to framing MAGA and tRump for what they truly represent. Morals and Ethics have been thrown off the Maga bus in favor of mere ambition, avarice, and pure animus.