In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.

Leary contrasts two models of philosophy: a post-feudal, classroom-and-text tradition that treats philosophy as a body of teachings, and an “information age” model in which philosophy becomes a public performance competing in a crowded media ecosystem. Saying “you perform it” suggests that credibility now depends on style, presence, and communicative reach as much as argument. The Aristotle talk-show image is deliberately provocative: it implies that even the most rigorous thinker would need to translate ideas into accessible, broadcast formats to influence society today. The line is both a critique of media-driven culture (where spectacle can eclipse substance) and a pragmatic claim about how intellectual authority is produced under mass media.