[Cyclefrance]

Originally Posted by wolf

It's not you. They make no fucking sense. Actually, I'm having a bit of a hard time with some of the arguments in the early parts of The Republic. If you accept the assumptions and conclusions, you're all right, but I got stuck on the whole just/unjust thing ... I'm now on book four(?), well, anyway, the part where Socrates is editing all the literature and stories about the gods because he doesn't want people thinking in unjust/incorrect ways in the perfect city.

This is actually quite fascinating, in a 1984 kind of utopia kind of way.

Sounds like an ideal model for justifying an invasion of Iraq....