You could argue Michael Oakeshott has that friendship is a conservative relationship, right?

It's non-instrumental. It's not about changing someone. It's kind of useless in the best sense,

right? Friendship is about delight, not getting something from the other person, right? It's enjoying

their presence. So there's something non-instrumental, non-utilitarian about friendship.

The beauty of the conservative view of friendship is that it's not reduced to politics.

But the blind spot is that people's character and their beliefs, aka their political perspective,

it echoes out into the world in all kinds of ways, how other kinds of people

are treated, right? Like, you know, think back to what we were just saying about Bill Buckley,

right? Maybe lingering by friends too much who wrote anti-Semitic columns or, you know,

had other kind of odious qualities about them. Like, in my heart of hearts, I love the idea of a totally non-instrumental friendship that is

totally nothing to do with politics.

But in real life, I just don't think that is entirely possible.

I don't think that is entirely possible. Museum Museums got it