2/ When you look at Zuckerface's book, it's easy to dismiss it because it's so bizarre. The lesser sibling of some tech dork is having a hysterical shtetl yenta fit about surely blond "racist" teens getting inspired by Plato to sacrifice 6 billion livers to Wotan. Who cares?

3/ In fact the Zuckerface sister is part of a bignose concern, even an obsession, going back decades. It's obvious on the left with the many Marxist and pseudo-Marxist ("critical theory" etc.) schemes to deconstruct or debunk Greek antiquity. But the same goes for the "right"....

4/ And in fact the entire industry and racket of classical studies, the study of antiquity, has been almost entirely hijacked by this group, especially in America. You see it in big ways and small, for example the fraudulent sentantiq account that poses as a neutral archivist...

5/But in nearly every area of commentary, historical writing, academia, and popular "culture" where the classics or Greco-Roman antiquity is touched upon, this group is attracted like flies to the milkpail in springtime...so then the question is why?

6/ This thred may go on for a while, and mayb I only start it tonight. There are many reasons this happened, including the motivation of this group to get a stranglehold on the interpretation of antiquity, about which they are EXTREMELY touchy. But this isn't the whole story....