"
He didn’t give interviews, or write political essays... But he did want
to get a school of students to see what he had seen: that Western
liberalism led to nihilism, and had undergone a development at the end
of which it could no longer define itself or defend itself. A
development which took everything praiseworthy and admirable out of
human beings, and made us into dwarf animals. Made us into herd
animals—sick little dwarves, satisfied with a dangerous life in which
nothing is true and everything is permitted...
Strauss believed that the liberal idea of individual freedom led people
to question everything—all values, all moral truths. Instead, people
were led by their own selfish desires. And this threatened to tear apart
the shared values which held society together. But there was a way to
stop this..."
The Power of Nightmares