“Oligarchy. A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor are deprived of it.” - Plato
“Poverty is the parent of Revolution and Crime.” - Aristotle
2500 years later the lesson still goes unlearn.
Light, in the absence of eyes, illuminates nothing. Visible forms are not inherent in the world, but are granted by the act of seeing. Though the world and events do exist independent of mind, they obtain of no meaning in themselves: none that the mind is not guilty of imposing on them. I bid my people follow, and like all good equations, they follow; for full endowment of purpose, they do submit - in turn, they resign me to a role inhuman, impossible, and unaccountable. But I can no longer stand the sleepless nights… I think I am learning to love the Demiurge.
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| — | Trevor Goodchild, “Aeon Flux” |
I absolutely love this.
ACTUALLY. This myth gets more interesting. These original “double humans” were comprised of two parts—either both parts male, one part male and one female, or both female. This myth is used to explain why some people are homosexual and why some are straight. Yay Classics. I’M LEARNING SO MUCH IN COLLEGE GUYS
This gets better each time it scrolls through my dash.
The Greeks had their flaws but they always had a tolerant and practical way of seeing the world.
Like how they explained why the different people of the world have different skin colors. Instead of the Abrahamic “Mark of Cain”, they believed that Apollo, the sun god, who’s chariot was the sun, allowed his son to drive the chariot. The boy could not control it and the sun came too close the the Earth. And, some people got exposed to the sun more than others and tanned various colors. That is how they explained the difference between people of different colors.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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| — | Plato |
