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spoken like a true platonist, yakk.
of course, plato operated in a space of informed debate.
otherwise there would have been no point in the dialogue form.
of course he was an enemy of athenian democracy as well.
the idea of a stable ahistorical truth runs directly counter to any conception of activity within history, carried out by human beings, as fundamental.
without it, people make meanings in the world--with it, they discover meanings already in place.
without it, people make history
with it, people at best duplicate an already-existing order.
politically, plato was kind of an authoritarian.
folk usually refer to the republic
but they should read the laws.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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