"He blue his mind out in a car.... he didn't notive that the lights
had changed..."
What is it about heightened scrutiny and aeshtetics? " higamous
hogomous women are monogamus, Hogomous higamous men are polygamous" (
Priestly?). What's the game theory for forums like this, the payoffs,
the certain facts about human insticts of certain kinds, about
partisan framing or ignorance, about the tools available. We can start
with Soc who admits to being wise in that he is a fool, and next we're
running the world because we 'unnerstan'. There's an aesthetic to
distance, like W Jame's veils.
There is a wee bit more than LS on SPA 2300yrs later, tho they were
certainly admirable in their way, lovable. But are we to live as old
wine in old skins? If so please tel me... what was the lead up to
Plato becoming, essentially, Viceroy of Syracuse? Wasn't Plato of a
different party than Soc or Ari?
How rich we are in story telling, from Superman to Silas Marner, were
The Greeks less rich? Aren't their tales parables of Life?
Philosophical parables? Is't Thomas Hardy sacred writting? Isn't all
true literature sacred?
Let us put LS in his place in intellectual history, a bright
cutiosity who probably says much more than he knows and must be
refuted/debated by those who delved further into the subject than he
or thee. We can read more into the subject than is warranted by the
facts. I rather think Pericles and Thucydides, Ari's "The Athenean
Constitution" are more important. And it seems an eye to the Medici is
very much in order... late middleages and the greatest outpouring of
genius since the Greeks and exceeding them in numerous ways. I am sure
there are better scholars of The Athenean Tragedy around.