/lit/ - Literature

>>23163024
The nice thing about "reading between the lines" is that you can become a ventriloquist for any thinker who has ever written something. Then you can play a game of chicken by claiming that you have the truest understanding of said thinker, anybody who disagrees simply misunderstands the thinker (or does not even read the thinker), and then dare people to state otherwise (because it's ultimately a he-said, she-said type of subjectivity).

No wonder neurotic academics love Strauss. He gave them a philosopher's stone for a self-perpetuating grift.