Five Point Penalty for Including Ayn Rand, Bro

May 22, 2012 6:42 AM

Socrates as irritated frat boy. Also available: Plato's Allegoy of the Cave. Nietzche, Hobbes, and Camus available on request. Just pretend you don't see the references to Ayn Rand.
posted by Ipsifendus (4 comments total)

I approve.
posted by glaucon at 6:53 AM on May 22, 2012 [1 favorite]

Heh, I hadn't made the connection between

At last I went to the artisans. I was conscious that I knew nothing at all, as I may say, and I was sure that they knew many fine things; and here I was not mistaken, for they did know many things of which I was ignorant, and in this they certainly were wiser than I was. But I observed that even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets;—because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom

and

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy -- and when he talks about a nonscientific matter, he sounds as naive as anyone untrained in the matter.

before.
posted by zamboni at 6:53 AM on May 22, 2012 [1 favorite]

Double?
posted by zamboni at 6:55 AM on May 22, 2012

"You can't force knowledge into a dumbass any more than you can force sight into a blind man."

If everyone took that advice 95% of the non-porn internet would grind to a halt.
posted by fleetmouse at 6:59 AM on May 22, 2012 [1 favorite]