This has already been invented before and it's called doing drugs together. Results of clinical trials are mixed

The solution is to find the ideal mother and hook her up to google search so we can pipe search results directly to her and she can give her response to them. This will be a lot more energy efficient I think

one must imagine hakim bey making extensive use of certain discord servers

This is basically the position of Robespierre: he was famously super against the death penalty as an ordinary element of the criminal code but believed it was totally necessary as a punishment for treason and crimes against the constitution (hence why it was OK to kill the king)

there's a good one waiting for you from me

Commando unit in an RTS game fit

Because tyrants are the people most lost and in need of wisdom, but also we don't really know very much historically about what he did with Dionysius of Syracuse. Most of the letters are probably forgeries, but we don't really know. His known works are very revealing about his true thoughts imo

People just come to worship the biggest bully of them all as an outward expression of their own need to be a bully to defend themselves because they can't conceive of a higher moral order.

This is why Republic is so important to read, it will totally reshape your appraisal of him with respect to this. He hated tyranny and saw it as the inevitable outgrowth of societies that don't cultivate public virtue and are based on an "anything goes", dog-eat-dog kind of attitude (feels familiar)

Also IMO Plato basically has all the good bits from Aristotle with a lot less of the bad, and in beautiful literary form at that. Like it's really kind of an eye opening moment in Republic when Socrates all the sudden stops and is like "btw guys women are just as capable of being rulers as men"

The appeal is that you get to watch a weird old man with a giant nose drive himself insane with the rapturous beauty of the visions he can see with his inner sight, and watch as he drives everyone else insane trying to help them see by showing them why they ought to take their own lives seriously

I'm calling Meno, symposium and gorgias advanced but they're not really, compared to like Timaeus, Parmeneides, Theatetus, etc. You can read them before Republic, I just love Republic so I want to encourage people to get to it quickly.

The thing I have to do is not that important compared to spreading the good word - you should basically just read them in the order that schools teach them, the death of Socrates Saga, then Republic, then more advanced dialogues (Gorgias, Meno, Symposium), then the more obscure or abstract stuff

oh no not more Plato slander on my timeline, I technically have something I'm supposed to do tonight

It's a reference to Jesus saying that infidelity is the only OK reason to divorce, so that's the allegation that's being made

I don’t really recall the details of these arguments but they would probably have to do with something about the parliament that passed the enabling act being illegitimate because of voter fraud/intimidation in the March 1933 election, but yeah I agree

I agree with you but every time someone says this a lot of people really like to start quibbling over how the Nazi takeover was illegal under Weimar law and so technically etc etc etc, missing the point

This literally sounds like something a demon would say