Showing posts with label Diogenes the Cynic. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Philosophers haunt rich men

I will give you wisdom.

 
  
Diogenes was asked, in a kind of scorn, What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? He answered, Because the one knew what they wanted, the other did not.
 
--  Francis Bacon
 
 
 

 

Monday, April 20, 2020

Libertarianism is incapable of even responding to a pandemic

Because libertarianism cares nothing for the πᾶν, only for the deme of one, the self.

For this reason it appears to others that libertarians even want the ill among the πᾶν to die, who would have died anyway, they say. Who wouldn't have died anyway, of course, but for the pandemic.

The libertarians are the most loathsome members of our society, as were the dog philosophers of old.