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unbelievable. there is no excuse for my not being on anyone's least favorite list. what the fuck

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>Thoughts on why he seems to be so forgotten?

he's a hedgehog. the fox knows many things, the hedgehog one big thing. he's a structuralist, in a sense, and this is the age of post-structuralism. but it is also the age in which the post-structuralists fundamentally reveal how ultimately structural they are in their sensibilities, and this is driving everyone in sane.

in the presence of scapegoating everywhere, the actual theory of the scapegoat itself gets overlooked. the forest and the trees. and because scapegoat theory rains on parades both on the political left and on the right. he's a downer for utopians. but it's also why he's so relevant.