Ep. 113: The Reality Crisis
Young Heretics
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The Socratic Insistency Against the Socratics
i think basically this reality crisis, like i say, is perennial. And the logic of it is the same whether we're talking about the meta verse and post trt politics, or a athens and the cave write the logic,. It remains the same. Let me read to you a passage from thucydides. He's basically herodotus, sort of successor, right? The second great torian who presents what he calls his historia - inquiry into the great deeds of greeks and barbarians leading up to and throughout the persian warsan This idea of investigation, which becomes our idea of history, preserving things so that the color doesn't drain out of them
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