Many of the few political theory alum I have talked to likes the classics the best. It talks of virtue, its lingo and knowledge are not all from history and puns from complex social structures and tracings. Its more about the fundamental human ways that still seem to resonate after a few millenia, and the virtue that even we feel like we could reach for. Although, this is only for people who want that, like that dumb old men Socrates or Kongzi, or who were cheesy enough to be made curious by Strauss. It's not like that any more. For good?

The reason why they, and I, like the classics and the ancients is because it reaches for something grandiose, like Marx's communist idea. Human greatness. Even if that was just a cool word that we deceive ourselves with and uselessly mellow. Other ideas and stories and writings that came later were less fundamental. More about the constructs we live in. More only about the temporary and internal struggles we have, than about some fundamental-sounding greatness we could reach for.

Something beyond history.

Or maybe just of history, as it always was. Those few who were always there, suffering from manic illusions and pursuing something until the end.

Mothagesso.