Sure Socrates was cool, but imagine how much cooler he would be had be opted out of killing himself and seized Athens. Now thats the best way to test ones philosphy...on other people in a live and dynamic experiment.
"the people are nothing but a great beast...
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value."
-Alexander Hamilton
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
--- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
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