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Do you have any advice for someone looking to learn more about that? Any good places to start?
by GeorgeWBasic 7y ago
Do you have any advice for someone looking to learn more about that? Any good places to start?
- rgrieselhuber 7y agoI wish there was something neatly compiled. Plato's model in the Republic, when read as a manual for elites wishing to control society on every level, is revealing in how people are enslaved through their own lack of discipline. This clicked, for me, with the physiological metaphor in my previous comment when I realized that self-discipline often follows a path upward from control over sexual desires, to control over hunger, to control over one's emotions (the heart) and on up as you master each lower level. Conversely, failure to exercise discipline over the upper levels, over time, slides you down into the basest level, like an infant, where you lack control even over your own biological functions. Apply the microcosm of your own self to the macrocosm of society and the same principles are in effect.