Where have so many white liberals of South Africa dribbled away to, in the decades since 1948 when apartheid started? They’ve gone to colonialist countries that practise liberal democracy to their heart’s content because that’s what Western White people do. The few natives who were originally there, were further reduced by genocides, by John Wayne and the US cavalry, and by Australian armed police (as I choose to believe). The…
Anti-Philosophy Socrates
‘Philosophy’ has never been Wisdom. Chapter 3: Socrates
(Firstly: the ‘Socratic Problem’ arises from the fact that Socrates never wrote anything down. All we have is what Plato wrote as having been said by him. So we don’t really know what of it was Plato’s own thinking or that of Socrates.) I was amazed by Socrates the first time I came across him, sitting in the empty market-place before breakfast with people gathered round him, and drawing them…
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