The quote needs a bit of context, to get the full weight, but essentially when asked what to do with his body after his death, Diogenes would reply with statements like “throw me in the forest without a burial”. People would be agast and ask him about vultures, wolves and other animals that might eat him, so he would say Just give me a stick to chase them away which is the quote I wanted.
Socrates:
“If men learn this [writing], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only the semblance of wisdom.”
I had to look that up rather than being able to quote it directly, which kind of makes his point for him, but I take it as a reminder that new ideas/ technologies will always face resistance, even from the noisy intelligent of us
That said: fuck AI
In a rich man’s house there is no where to spit but his face
If you’re not familiar with problem-posing vs banking education, quick and dirty summary so the quote makes sense: problem-posing education is a method of teaching that emphasizes critical thinking through dialogue between the students and teacher. The banking model is traditional teaching, teacher up front and narrating (‘depositing’ knowledge into the students) while the students listen.
Unfortunately, those who espouse the cause of liberation are themselves surrounded and influenced by the climate which generates the banking concept, and often do not perceive its true significance or its dehumanizing power. Paradoxically, then, they utilize this very instrument of alienation in what they consider an effort to liberate. Indeed, some ‘revolutionaries’ brand as innocents, dreamers, or even reactionaries those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate men by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another ‘deposit’ to be made in men. Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men upon their world in order to transform it. Those truly committed to the cause of liberation can accept neither the mechanistic concept of consciousness as an empty vessel to be filled, nor the use of banking methods of domination (propaganda, slogans - deposits) in the name of liberation.
-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Emphasis mine
I’m So Meta, Even This Acronym
Not really attributable to any one individual, but sometimes attributed to Douglas Hofstadter, Terry A. David, or Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd.
If I were not Diogenes, I would also wish to be Diogenes
-Diogenes
For a dude sleeping in pottery, this hits hard.
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” – Hunter S. Thompson
“There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.”
- Thoreau
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
That’s clever
Behold, a man!
~Diogenes
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson*
*(Possibly Bessie Anderson Stanley)
don’t panic.
-douglas adams
Also!
“Floated in the air in much the same way bricks do not.”
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”
-Voltaire, Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers, 1767Got a big hate boner for Voltaire personally, but a broken clock is correct twice a day…
“Those that can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
While he was used by the Jesuits during the French Revolution to shape the minds of the French, he still has points that can be applied to this very day.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
You desperately need a comma!
Also
Husband to a murdered wife, father to a murdered child. And I will have my vengeance in this life, or the next.
Where do I need a comma here?
More specifically, right before “becomes the way.”
There should definitely be a pause there.
Between “the way” and “becomes”
- “What stands in the way”: noun clause
- ”becomes”: verb
- ”the way”: object, actually predicate nominative
No comma needed. Adding one would be a mistake.
But even if you’re unconvinced, you can just imagine it as scriptio continua lite as the original koine Greek text would have been.
I disagree. But I’m not trying to argue with ya homie.
Please have a good night.✌️
“I am quite fond of femboys”
- Ibn Arabi
