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> many ancient and early-modern writers would hide their true beliefs

Still true today. To reveal your true thought needs courage. You could get doxxed, beheaded, lose your job or else...



Or (gasp!) called out on Twitter! Which in this day and age, people pretend is a fate worse than beheading.


Kierkegaard said that in the old days you would lose your head, but nowadays you're allowed to talk your head off in Hyde park.


Alt.wittgenstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGksgZKecKE

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be singing.


Depends on if, in what directions, and how far your beliefs stray from the local accepted ranges.


Oh agreed, 100%. I was trying to summarize Strauss's point in the book. But really, you've hit on the Straussian interpretation of Strauss!




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