The reason Nolan chose N’bongo to play Helen was to induce in the audience the same blindness, or absence of light, that Homer himself had experienced as punishment for having likewise denigrated the beauty of Helen, as described in Plato’s Phaedrus.
@Logo_Daedalus He made that statement within a longer diatribe against communism, where he describes how that term is used as part of a rhetorical strategy of swindling votes from browns.
Good book on Socrates’ sperg-out in Book 8 of the Republic. Rebukes the Plato-as-ironist view, very Dark Academia style. Statesmanship in musical terms. He claims to have identified the obscurus Platonis numerus…https://t.co/QHfFtKVK9M
I’ve always laughed at this sequence in the Iliad when Priam, likened to an insect chirping idly in the thrush, immediately goes on to explain why you cannot really blame the Greeks for launching that war over Helen, could you?