Allan Bloom and Leo Strauss are Dangerous Gnostics
Recently, Lyndon LaRouche supporters were trying to distribute their materials to unwary University of Chicago students and faculty. Of course, people asked me about LaRouche. I only knew a little about his anti-Semitism and fringe Presidential campaigns. Little did I know that La Rouche envisioned himself as the tortured Socrates of the American race. Even less did I know about his thoughts on Friedrich Nietzsche and Leo Strauss. I often have theorized that the University of Chicago was remade after the Second World War in the model of the Weimar German university in the same way that it was founded in the image of Heidelberg and Leipzig in 1893. Hence, scholars such as Heidegger and Nietzche are still studied despite their impact on Nazi ideology, for otherwise how could one discuss Arendt? (Of course, as everyone ought to know, Heidegger and Arendt once dated, but that's another story.) Yet LaRouche and his supporters have a deathly hatred for Strauss and Nietzsche and claim their gnostic ideologues have infiltrated our government. (Ashcroft and Wolfowitz give them circumstantial evidence, though I believe that Ashcroft would consider himself a disciple of Christ rather than Nietzsche). Anyway, my account of this is quite rambling, but this article should make clear what I mean LaRouche and his supporters are opposed to the guiding intellectual culture of this University as this article should elucidate. Hence, if you see them on campus, put the Core to use and harass them for their bad interpretations of Plato.
ESA(20030417.1)
Recently, Lyndon LaRouche supporters were trying to distribute their materials to unwary University of Chicago students and faculty. Of course, people asked me about LaRouche. I only knew a little about his anti-Semitism and fringe Presidential campaigns. Little did I know that La Rouche envisioned himself as the tortured Socrates of the American race. Even less did I know about his thoughts on Friedrich Nietzsche and Leo Strauss. I often have theorized that the University of Chicago was remade after the Second World War in the model of the Weimar German university in the same way that it was founded in the image of Heidelberg and Leipzig in 1893. Hence, scholars such as Heidegger and Nietzche are still studied despite their impact on Nazi ideology, for otherwise how could one discuss Arendt? (Of course, as everyone ought to know, Heidegger and Arendt once dated, but that's another story.) Yet LaRouche and his supporters have a deathly hatred for Strauss and Nietzsche and claim their gnostic ideologues have infiltrated our government. (Ashcroft and Wolfowitz give them circumstantial evidence, though I believe that Ashcroft would consider himself a disciple of Christ rather than Nietzsche). Anyway, my account of this is quite rambling, but this article should make clear what I mean LaRouche and his supporters are opposed to the guiding intellectual culture of this University as this article should elucidate. Hence, if you see them on campus, put the Core to use and harass them for their bad interpretations of Plato.
ESA(20030417.1)
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