I was going to bring your attention..

to that essay, but then I figured you had to have read it. I need to re-read it myself; it's a remarkable piece of writing. I wondered on reading it whether Ahmari wasn't taking it upon himself to answer some of Harrington's claims. Who was it, after all, that taught us to look skeptically at the "normal". Yeah, it's "risky to assume thought drives social change rather than the reverse." But I keep being reminded of the closing sentences of the General Theory: "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly supposed. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else." Interesting that the most influential thinkers of the last century -- Foucault, Keynes, Wittgenstein -- worshipped the nude bodies of young males. I don't know about Carl Schmitt; he was married twice, but Keynes married too... SR