PLATO WAS NO MUG?
October 23, 2019
Dear Editor,
Sadly, so many “educated but unlearned” so-called intellectuals (not to mention really dopey “clever people”) do not study, let alone heed, history!
I wonder if Plato’s The Gorgias heralds in today’s looming showdown between Russia and America, with Putin cast as “Callicles the Younger” and Trump as “Callicles the Elder”? I ask because I’d bet both these alpha-males would consider justice-advocating Socrates a pansy! And these two, coupled with Beijing’s ultra alpha-males’ South China Sea ambitions, may well produce Thomas Hobbes’ “war of all against all” until just who is world (what’s left of it) boss is finally sorted out!
Yours,
Howard Hutchins
Victoria, Australia
As Zyklon’s official designated Ambassador to the planet earth, I say that you can catch more flies with honey than hitting them over the head with a flyswatter, and I ought to know: Madam Shylock uses flypaper, I believe scented with cloves, but don’t quote me on that.