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Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic

The New Thinkery

CHAPTER

The Importance of Glaukine in Politics

Socrates is not just a main guy in the dialogue, like people are reflecting on Glaukine. I think you're right that there are these glaukon types to recur. Alcibiades is one of them. These types always fail. Like they can't, they never actually get the education. That's what's really the Adam Ants type. And so happened that my relatives were heading up this regime. So they're actually talker. Well, he's very adamant about a lot of things, but you know, he's not adamant about being humorous, that's for sure. But yes, like the six dimensional chess thing for sure, right?

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Speaker 1
It
Speaker 4
could be absolutely anything, couldn't it? Yeah, it can be. Yeah.
Speaker 1
What I want to differentiate is the difference between what is a trigger for someone that's experienced trauma and what we, I think, really often, we just use the words so easily to say, I was triggered. Oh, yeah. So is there a triggering of a traumatic experience for you, or is the trigger that it's surfacing discomfort? Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 3
This discomfort that is new discomfort as opposed to bringing up past trauma. Well, just like, is
Speaker 2
it like Penny's example when she says, when she hears people say, I'm so OCD because I like having like a tidy bathroom. No, you like having a tidy bathroom. OCD is this crippling mental illness. It's very different in the same way that I'm triggered. It might be someone says, oh, we're going to do a hill sprints today. Yes. And you're, oh, I'm triggered because that's such an unpleasant thing to do as opposed to. Yeah. So like, you know, maybe, maybe someone was in a car crash when they're a kid and I hear a really
Speaker 1
loud smash and they're triggered by the memory of a car crash. Yes. Okay. Yeah. 100% because I think really what has, what has happened probably like probably over the last kind of five to 10 years is that we've started to use this word trigger in a really, um, not, this is not intentional, but kind of in a trivial way. So we can say like, you know, I, um, I went down to the shops and there was, there was no part and I was triggered. You know, like I was triggered. Basically what happens is there I experienced an unpleasant emotion.
Speaker 3
That's sort of said as a joke. Yeah.

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