Socrates is an asshole.
You know you're reading The Republic when:
1. In order to spice up your homework, you title your second journal response on the book "Plato 2: Revenge of the Forms."
2. You have to do a Ctrl+F on you journals for the word "asshole" because you can't not point out that trait in Socrates' arguments.
3. You consider writing the entire journal on Socrates' asshole qualities.
4. Only the sense of unconditional love you get from Java City Mayan Mochas is keeping you from stabbing out your own eye. (You're careful to keep one within reach at all times.)
5. Ten pages is plenty to base a journal on. You don't really need to absorb the full assholosity of the bastard to pull a couple pages out of your own.
6. You look back on the time you bought this book, years ago, on the theory that reading The Classics of Western Civilization would be Good For You in some cosmic intellectual sense...and dissolve into horrified laughter.
7. You regard the nutrition facts on your study break snack food as pleasure reading.
8. You calculate how much nutritional benefit you would get from eating the book instead of reading it.
9.You start a Facebook group called "Thrasymachus for Guardian."*
10. And the number one reason you know you're reading The Republic is: you're caught up on sleep for the first time all semester.
Thank you. I'll be here all week.
*Thasymachus is the guy who disagrees with Socrates and gets his ass kicked to a sulky, resentful pulp. Let me repeat: Socrates is an asshole.
1. In order to spice up your homework, you title your second journal response on the book "Plato 2: Revenge of the Forms."
2. You have to do a Ctrl+F on you journals for the word "asshole" because you can't not point out that trait in Socrates' arguments.
3. You consider writing the entire journal on Socrates' asshole qualities.
4. Only the sense of unconditional love you get from Java City Mayan Mochas is keeping you from stabbing out your own eye. (You're careful to keep one within reach at all times.)
5. Ten pages is plenty to base a journal on. You don't really need to absorb the full assholosity of the bastard to pull a couple pages out of your own.
6. You look back on the time you bought this book, years ago, on the theory that reading The Classics of Western Civilization would be Good For You in some cosmic intellectual sense...and dissolve into horrified laughter.
7. You regard the nutrition facts on your study break snack food as pleasure reading.
8. You calculate how much nutritional benefit you would get from eating the book instead of reading it.
9.You start a Facebook group called "Thrasymachus for Guardian."*
10. And the number one reason you know you're reading The Republic is: you're caught up on sleep for the first time all semester.
Thank you. I'll be here all week.
*Thasymachus is the guy who disagrees with Socrates and gets his ass kicked to a sulky, resentful pulp. Let me repeat: Socrates is an asshole.