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Nice, the ancient version of using Powerpoint slides instead of good communication.

• Oxidation 4y ago
  I can just imagine a junior politician at the Areopagus with his head down nervously mumbling from a wax tablet, while Socrates rolls his eyes at the public speaking of the "youth of today".
• pelasaco 4y ago
  Nice, the ancient version of "if you use too much GPS you will loose your sense of orientation"
• watwut 4y ago
  Ancient version of old person hating on social and technological change more like.
  • Kamq 4y ago
    In Socrates' defense, the generation after him did lose to Sparta and allow the Thirty Tyrants to come to power. Presumably because the naval plans for the Battle of Aegospotami were written down instead of memorized.
    • watwut 4y ago
      His own students collaborated with Sparta and made that happen. He was kinda neutral, did not participated and did not fought against them. Socrates opponents then kicked Sparta out, suffering and risking torture and death. And they then blamed Socrates teachings for what transpired. (Yes, the court that sentenced him was miscarriage of justice.)