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Alpha Male LifestyleWhy Socrates Hated Democracy
We’re used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, Socrates, had deep suspicions of it. To buy books on philosopy and other themes from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https://goo.gl/mQYmze
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What's so messed up about this, is that a democracy is founded in free speech, and they killed him for his free speech because they disagreed.
And he wasn't wrong.
Good video, but you are wrong. Solon created philosophy from the love of wisdom, sort of as life. Granted, Socrates and his cadre including Plato, Aristotle, and Xenophon (I may have misspelled his name) argued against Sophist who said things that sounded good. Solon created it along with Democratia, but Socrates got to see how "Democracy" played out especially after tyrants learned how to seize control. Solon had to leave Athens to breathe and traveled the known world, the Mediterranean World where he stumbled upon the Legend of Atlantis from the Egyptians. It's a small but true distinction.
Hey, putting bitches and single moms on a tirade heading g into a storm on the way to Salmonis sounds like a good idea, just saying...
Whoever the narrator is still gets it wrong because it isn't about education (which has been argued for decades in the form of progressive educational values and "making the case") it's about letting everyone vote and namely women who the more you educate them the worse everything gets. The more you empower and let women have a say the precipitously worse all of society is getting. When you have no stake in or authority commensurate with your level of responsibility over society (as only men can attain) you SHOULD NOT be voting.
You know what was a civilized and technologically advanced society: Rome NOT Greece. Never let anyone lie to you and tell you that Greece was better simply because of democracy. Democracy is shit.
Fuck Greece and democracy. Fuck Democracy!