Benj, what you’re missing is w’s ‘tragic’ approach to ideation –his placing a pertinent action onstage for interested parties to react to and to see others reacting to.

attitude is stagecraft, stagecraft tactic to strategy, strategy the reaction formation. Is (or more often, was) there a better way? Where are discounts toward ideal; when & how might normative appreciate.

and you a professor –pretending, for the sake of straw man political criticism, that you don’t understand that orthodoxy teaches about the teacher over the topic, or that a perfected & finished ideal Apollonian can never stray far of thought’s enemy disdain, while a worthwhile blog , will never be as anything else but Dionysian .