"So what are these barriers that keep people from realizing anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question: Which is the most universal human characteristic? Fear, or laziness?"
"The gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human. The realm of the real spirit, the true artist, the saint, the philosopher, is rarely achieved." https://t.co/TtgYEG83gX
Some people see the cracks in social reality easily. Others can't or won't. The latter run the world until they break it, and then blame the Cassandras.
@SheHorrid@sapphyreblayze Search her account for "dad." He's a 50-year-old manchild who loves Star Wars, He-Man, and collecting toy figures from the 1980s. He taught her nothing.
@PaulGosling1@cook_mysack You are elderly and this is your priority. But it is not everyone's. When you are 20 your view of life is entirely different. Your generation had none of these problems. You cannot understand, at the end of your life, how hopeless this all looks to someone just beginning theirs.
@SheHorrid@sapphyreblayze They have been indoctrinated to say these things. They are in for a bad decade ahead. The world they take for granted will disappear, and they will have no psychological ability to handle it. They will break.
@JenniferSey I've never heard anyone with an outlook on politics that includes the notion that "voters don't want politicians grown in vats." I'm willing to bet not a single focus group member in the history of the US has ever said that either. This guy has a cabin in the woods.
Plato's Republic concludes with the Myth of Er in which also Odysseus plays a prominent role.
When his soul is asked how it wants to be reborn, if at all, after some reflection Odysseus decides to be a simple man without claim to fame and honour.
Because he has suffered unlike many others Odysseus comes to reflect on the meaning of life. He realises that a life lived for seemingly eternal fame and honour is not worth it.
Plato here once more shows his quality as a myth-maker while we also learn that myth was alive for the Greeks. From his memory and reflecting upon it, Odysseus knows that his over-bearing suffering and the suffering he inflicted upon the world also caused great injustice. Odysseus thus here reaches full paideia: he becomes the well-rounded and -spirited man he was always to be thanks to his reflection on the memory of his suffering.
@femlovesfooty All because that poor migrant had to travel to Ireland to sharpen his knife. Sudan has been ravaged by the West; colonizers took all the silverware.