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Clearly, this cat understands the Way.

“The wise warrior avoids the battle.”
-- Sun Tzu

That's basically our entire project here at BoAT. Take our...uh, take on Plato, for instance. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

im a big fan of reading the canon for the opposite reason of marble statues guys. Instead of "inheriting the wisdom of the ancients" it kinda just shows you how sometimes (but not always) rlly old dead people are dumber than dogshit. There's no one steering this ship so we may as well man the helm

Screengrab of a tumblr post by thoodleoo: “dude you should have been at the club last night it was insane. the dj was playing the lament and funeral of hector from the iliad and everyone was beating their breasts and tearing open their garments. at the end we all built up a funeral pyre in the middle of the dance floor and set it aflame. we were all feeling the inherent human connection through millennia old poetry, it was wild”

dactylic hexameter gets everybody on the floor

real Aristophanes heads know

they brek-ek-ek-ek upon us

just thinking about a ruling class that's been fed censored art and taught to believe it is superior to all the others for no reason

Photo of a masculine figure in silhouette standing at the opening of a cave. There is water on the floor of the cave which partially reflects him. Caption reads: EPISODE 40: Plato, The Republic, Part 2: Out of the Cave

NEW EPISODE! #icymi, our second (of three) episodes on Plato's Republic dropped last night. It covers the back half of Republic, exploring Plato's theory of forms and the famous allegory of the cave. Available now wherever you get podcasts! #philosophy #booksky #podcasts

Photo of a masculine figure in silhouette standing at the opening of a cave. There is water on the floor of the cave which partially reflects him. Caption reads: EPISODE 40: Plato, The Republic, Part 2: Out of the Cave

NEW EPISODE! #icymi, our second (of three) episodes on Plato's Republic dropped last night. It covers the back half of Republic, exploring Plato's theory of forms and the famous allegory of the cave. Available now wherever you get podcasts! #philosophy #booksky #podcasts

this is a good podcast episode, but it's not THE good podcast episode, if you know what I mean #philosophy #booksky

Episode 40 – Plato, The Republic, Part 2 – Out of the Cave

... and the examination of whether anyone who doesn't live in Plato's ideal state, where there are no plays, no desserts, and no private property, can ever be truly free and happy. Listen now on Spotify or wherever podcasts are published! #classicsky #history open.spotify.com/episode/4rMh...

Diagram of the scene described in Plato's allegory of the cave, with a superimposed text bubble from one of the prisoners watching the shadows. He asks "chat is this real"

NEW EPISODE! We continue our trilogy on Plato's Republic with an episode exploring the latter half of the work, which includes philosophical ideas like universal forms, the nature of knowledge, and the Good (capital G), as well as Plato's dissection of the five types of states... #booksky #podcasts

Montresor, editor extraordinaire, has arrived to deal with the late episode issue.

A devastatingly handsome tuxedo cat with yellow eyes and a yellow collar perches on the back of a yellow velvet office chair. Some lady's shoulder (she is wearing a black sweatshirt) is visible on the right-hand side of the photo

editor literally breathing down my neck today #caturday #proofofcat

Ezracles: It is important for intellectuals to say what is most useful.
Socrates: But is that true?
Ezracles: Certainly I believe it to be true Socrates.
Socrates: But how can I tell you are not just saying that because you think it useful to do so?

There’s a sick kid in the house; today’s episode is postponed until Tuesday!

Chotiner: so you sat out most of the war because your general took your slavewoman.

Achilles: I proved my point. They couldn’t manage without me.

C: do you think that makes you look better or worse?

A: Well, I did’t kill him. And he brought her back.

C: son of Peleus, thank you for your time.

this actually depicts the world’s first game of Battleship.

Really cannot recommend Patrick Wyman's podcast Tides of History enough. In addition to pointing me at a ton of great resources for my own work, it's also been useful for both escapism and resetting one's perspective on what we're all living through. It's a Wondery show; easy to find.

SPILL TEA, O MUSE, 'BOUT ACHILLES FLIPPING HIS SHIT

Four-panel comic from Zach Smith of SMBC Comics. Panel 1: James Joyce clutches a copy of ULYSSES, declaring "I, James Joyce, wrote the most widely cited book that nobody has actually read!" Panel 2: Stephen Hawking, seated behind him with a copy of A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME on his lap, declares, "Nonsense! I, Stephen Hawking, have the most widely cited book that nobody has actually read." Panel 3: Immanuel Kant, bewigged and grouchy, appears behind Joyce and Hawking. "Bah!" he says. "I, Immanuel Kant, have the most widely--" He is cut off by a speech bubble in all caps: "HA. HA. HA." Panel 4: The Bible, enormous and floating in the air, looms over Kant, Hawking, and Joyce. "AMATEURS," it says.

"Gimme the FDR special, please."

Progressive taxation including high marginal rates, with a minimum percentage of the yield going to help people: health care, education, safe water and food, low- to no-cost housing, disaster relief, etc.

I'd need help working out the numbers, but, yeah. That.

Now you. The pettier and weirder, the better. Plato and Socrates would be proud.

Our host's dad would have vehicles doing more than 30 mph over the speed limit/ general traffic flow picked up by giant magnets suspended from the bellies of Chinook helicopters and flown back at least 10 miles.