Esoteric Writing

[tbieter]

Obama, a philosophical pragmatist, regularly engages esoteric writing and speaking to instigate class conflict, a political tactic necessary to getting and keeping power, that he learned from Saul Alinsky.

"Is there any subject more esoteric than esoteric writing? Turn to the groundbreaking book on the subject, Leo Strauss’s Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), and you’ll find such chapter headings as “The Law of Reason in the Kuzari” and “How to Study Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise”—topics seemingly of interest only to the most scholarly of scholars. Yet in Philosophy Between the Lines, Arthur Melzer shows that understanding esoteric writing is vital to understanding Western culture and, indeed, culture in general. People interested in a wide variety of subjects—from literary interpretation to philosophy to politics to the history of religious beliefs—need to know something about esoteric, or secret, writing. By producing this clear and comprehensive account of the phenomenon, Melzer has performed a heroic service, finally making it possible for general readers to understand esoteric writing and why it has become such a controversial issue.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/ ... ?nopager=1

[HexHammer]

Whew! Sure is a lot of fancy ass rhetorics.

Obama has been heavily critisized for only having fancy words to speak, but not really able to speak on common grounds with people like Bush did. Obama has too high intellectual wording that falls flat when speaking to the senate.

[Impenitent]

Obama misunderestimates the false love that the 60% who stayed home give him...

-Imp

[Arising_uk]

Obama misunderestimates the false love that the 60% who stayed home give him...

-Imp

Is this true? Only 40% voted, bang goes Democracy over there then and I guess we're following suit. I can see why some are saying kleptocracy is back, and that some of the elites are pushing for open aristocratic rule.

[Impenitent]

Obama misunderestimates the false love that the 60% who stayed home give him...

-Imp

Is this true? Only 40% voted, bang goes Democracy over there then and I guess we're following suit. I can see why some are saying kleptocracy is back, and that some of the elites are pushing for open aristocratic rule.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/pos ... ince-wwii/

democracy? no, we're a representative republic and we're gearing up for a replay of 1861

-Imp

[WanderingLands]

Good find!