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Plato Uncovered: Building Influence in the Ancient and Modern World
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Pythagoras and the Founding of Communities
Pythagoras is a real guru kind of a figure and he has all these weird rules that you have to follow. It's like when you get up out of your bed, don't leave an impression on your bed. Don't eat beans. You can eat beans besides animals. Maybe because beans have souls. But these men were not forming families and living like normal civic lives. Oh no. There's definitely a sense that they were living apart and they were persecuted too. They do get driven out of communities for being weird. And maybe it's because they have political ambitions and they're starting to try to get influence in the state. And this is something that their enemies can leverage
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