Scenario. Jerry Seinfeld writes and produces a gritty war movie. It’s weird, given his earlier work, but not a bad movie. The script is pretty solid. Time passes, and Seinfeld dies. After his death it comes out that before the 2016 election, he had written a book on governance strategy and had sent it to Hillary Clinton in hopes that she would be impressed and hire him as an aide. The book is published, and because of his celebrity status, people are fascinated by it. It works its way into the body of theory, and eventually comes to be viewed as the central piece of governance theory from the 21st century. Even after Seinfeld is forgotten, this book lives on. It’s the year 2647 and you just overheard somebody calling a particular governing strategy “Seinfeldian.”
This is literally what happened to Machiavelli.
Which is sad, because “The Mandrake” was a pretty good bedroom farce.
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