Irving Kristol was famously influenced by ur-neocon Leo Strauss, who held that lies told by the power elite to maintain its power, so long as philosophers like Strauss agreed with them, were “noble lies.” Thanks to Norm for this Kristol quote illustrating the point:
There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.
“Doesn’t work” for the neocons and their drive for statism at home and empire abroad, that is.
1:38 pm on September 21, 2009
