38 | Liberal Democracy in Crisis: Carl Schmitt and the Present
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Inevitability of Conflict
i think it's necessary for anthropological reasons, but clearly he thinks that, like, so one of his critiques of the kind of bourgeois liberal order is that maybe it can kind of pragmatically go on for a decent amount of time. And iam saying, what if it's like, ok, there's conflicts, and then there's conflicts. The frindenemy distinction, like politics, it tries to liquidate politics, which seems to be rooting in a kind of pseudo anthropological claim about us. It goes on even though it's those anthropological imperatives in a certain way. But it's just like, lost, disaggregated. There's almost a spiritual element to
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