Mark Gagnon
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I hope people know that we're being sarcastic.
There's another one.
But yes, we were being sarcastic.
The whore moves.
Now, Carl Schmitt has a bunch of other things.
To be honest with you, I'm not an expert in Carl Schmitt.
You're forgiven.
Schmittian philosophy.
But he has ideas around political theology, that modern political concepts are secularized religious concepts.
So the things we talk about in the political sphere are basically just the things we've always been talking about, just reframed.
So the sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
So real power is basically whoever declares the emergency.
So if you're able to point to some type of emergency, then you now have the ball in your court.
This is Carl Schmitt's ideas.
Now, this applies to Peter Thiel.