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Culture Made Stupid
This is the companion volume to the better known Science Made Stupid by Tom Weller. Here is a short excerpt:
The leading Post-Socratic was Plato, who wrote philosophical discourses in a form called the dialogue, even though one guy does all the talking. The following example is from the Eurethra.
Socrates: Surely, it is the case, is it not, that the many and the one cannot be the same?
Glaucoma: Yes, that is true, Socrates.
Socrates: And then is it not true also that the one and the many are likewise not the same?
Glaucoma: Undoubtedly so, Socrates.
...
Socrates: Therefore, Glaucoma, I propose to demonstrate, in the course of several more days of this dialogue, that the one and the many are different.
Glaucoma: Anybody here got any hemlock?
Socrates: Surely, it is the case, is it not, that the many and the one cannot be the same?
Glaucoma: Yes, that is true, Socrates.
Socrates: And then is it not true also that the one and the many are likewise not the same?
Glaucoma: Undoubtedly so, Socrates.
...
Socrates: Therefore, Glaucoma, I propose to demonstrate, in the course of several more days of this dialogue, that the one and the many are different.
Glaucoma: Anybody here got any hemlock?
Read more: http://www.chrispennello.com/tweller/
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I have a few comments & questions:
1. I've seen the Winged Victory in the Louvre, but it looks subtly different here. How do you explain that?
2. Which word processor did Shakespeare use?
3. It seems like a bad idea to open a Rose Window. Who knows what strange birds might fly into the cathedral?
4. Did the delegates really doodle on the first copy of the Constitution? If so, they must have wielded a big eraser. I can't see any vestige of those doodles here:
