Note on Manton's Plan to Destroy SF

eg1 · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by grimslade

Obviously, Brooks is himself a Straussian, if perhaps not publicly so. He saw the truth of your argument as well as the danger of making it publicly. You may take his silence as fundamental agreement with the proposition.

Wake me up when you get around to exposing Manton as an instrument of the Illuminati ...

grimslade · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by Get Smart

Is this the moment that clothes-related topics have all been exhausted? Has SF jumped the shark?

You see? Do you see? It's working! Manton, what have you done?

rnoldh · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by grimslade

2.) It is well known that Leo Strauss believed that matters sartorial, like matters philosophical, were properly a conspiracy of the initiated against the uninitiated.

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Did Leo Strauss write very much about sartorial matters?

grimslade · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by rnoldh

Did Leo Strauss write very much about sartorial matters?

Well, not publicly.

Obviously.

Most of his thoughts on these matters can be found in the audiotapes of his unpublished lectures, which still circulate like contraband among his followers.

Manton · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by rnoldh

Did Leo Strauss write very much about sartorial matters?

There is the lost masterpiece The Argument and Action of Gingrich's Esquire. Very hard to find.

rnoldh · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by grimslade

Well, not publicly.

Obviously.

Most of his thoughts on these matters can be found in the audiotapes of his unpublished lectures, which still circulate like contraband among his followers.

OK, sort of like Bob Dylan's basement tapes!

LabelKing · Apr 10, 2007

This is a Zionist conspiracy.

Artisan Fan · Apr 10, 2007

There is the lost masterpiece The Argument and Action of Gingrich's Esquire. Very hard to find.

Newt Gingrich. No there's a snappy dresser.

Will, Andrew and Medwards are quaking in their Edward Greens.

Manton · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by Artisan Fan

Newt Gingrich. No there's a snappy dresser.
Arnold Gingrich, fran boy.

Artisan Fan · Apr 10, 2007

Arnold Gingrich, fran boy.

Hey what did you expect, I'm from Georgia. We are not aware of other Gingrich.

And who you calling fran? I'm far too cheek for that.

lawyerdad · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by Manton

Arnold Gingrich, fran boy.

Any relation to Levi Strauss?

summej2 · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by Manton

2) But to do that he needs living instruments.

3) Those living instruments are Strauss students, and students of students, scattered throughout the world's most powerful government -- that of the United States.

Members incorporate in the mystical body of Leo Strauss? Lord have mercy.

grimslade · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

Any relation to Levi Strauss?

Only intellectually. It was Levi Strauss who first delineated the essentially cultural nature of the distinction between raw and cooked denim, IIRC.

But let's not let Manton distract us from the purpose of this thread, which is to expose Manton's plot.

Will · Apr 10, 2007

Sigh. First I had to read forty or fifty books on men's clothing so I could understand what Mike was talking about and now I'm supposed to read Leo Strauss. Developing a personal style is hard.

AlanC · Apr 10, 2007

Originally Posted by Manton

In the summer of 2003, when D.C. Strauss fever was raging, I pitched a column idea to David Brooks: "The Most Powerful Person in the World Is a Nobody You've Never Heard Of."

The train of logic went like this:

1) Thanks to James Atlas and the New York Times, we now know that Strauss rules the world from his grave.

2) But to do that he needs living instruments.

3) Those living instruments are Strauss students, and students of students, scattered throughout the world's most powerful government -- that of the United States.

4) The White House is the most important power center in that government.

5) Mike Anton is the only Straussian in the White House.

6) Ergo, Mike Anton is the most poweful person in the world.

He didn't write it.

This logic does lead us to the conclusion that you are the most powerful man at Style Forum.

All we need is a good Kirkian to counteract the Straussian influence...

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