"Strauss believed it was for politicians to assert powerful and inspiring myths that everyone could believe in.
They might not be true - but they were necessary illusions.
One of these was religion; the other was the myth of the nation."
"Strauss believed it was for politicians to assert powerful and inspiring myths that everyone could believe in.
They might not be true - but they were necessary illusions.
One of these was religion; the other was the myth of the nation."
"This dramatic battle between good and evil was precisely the kind of myth that Leo Strauss had taught his students would be necessary to rescue the country from moral decay.
It might not be true, but it was necessary, to re-engage the public in a grand vision of America's destiny, that would give meaning and purpose to their lives.
The Straussians started to create a worldview which is a fiction.
The world is NOT divided into good and evil.
The battle in which we are engaged is NOT a battle between good and evil.
The United States, as anyone who observes understands, has done some good and some bad things.
It's like any great power. This is the way history is.
But they wanted to create a world of moral certainties, so therefore they invent mythologies—fairytales—describing any force in the world that obstructs the United States as somehow Satanic, or associated with evil..."
