/lit/ - Literature

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difficult question to answer. i'd say: i've been influenced primarily by plato, aquinas, kant, schiller; madison; peirce, james, dewey, arendt. nietzsche and schmitt.
i believe in something like the "aesthetic state" cast in a democratic fashion.i think that the state needs to maintain a monopoly over the means of conversion/aesthetics and that the state should further act as a catalyst and defender of pluralism. i think that a liberal state can have "teeth" contra Schmitt and try to trace out something like a "nietzschean democracy" (i am aware of the irony and potential theoretical contradiction here) in my own writings. i've got like a 250,000 word blog committed to tracing out this very problem. i know, i know--i need to edit and provide a better TL;DR at some point. still working out my own ideas.
i care less about left and right politics and more about certain "greek" problems like what a state-led paideia ought to look like, how this paideia relates to institutions and structures of immortality, how art and beauty operates in this paideia, the role of charisma and antinomeanism vs. forms of communitarian politics, etc.
i can elaborate and go into detail, etc.--very hard to disclose one's real commitment on a 4chan post

what are your politics??