If I ever seem smart and knowledgeable, it is only because of what I am being compared against.
My friend's Dunning and Krueger would like to talk to you about this feeling.
I've always loved this painting, because it looks like he's flipping off of God while he tells the guy in red everything that he hates about him personally. His friends behind red, are trying to get him to go home because he's drunk and causing a scene, and the two guys in back it just came to watch the drama when they heard commotion. The bartender, who still has his tab open, is handing him another drink.
is handing him another drink.
I have a feeling that this will be his last drink of the night though.
Real talk though. You ever read the Apology of Socrates? It's haunting.
I read a collection of Plato's works many years ago, and this might have been part of it. I remember reading his account of Socrates' final days and death. I've always wondered if Socrates really believed what he was saying about not fearing the end.
If I recall correctly, it was written by Plato based on the witness of a person in an adjacent cell. By all accounts, he was not a charlatan. He kept talking to people about all his usual stuff and telling people to quit crying because it's not that big a deal. When the guard came with the drink, he thanked him for his troubles, and asked him how to make it work the best. The guard told him to drink it, and then walk around his cell until his legs feel heavy, and then just lay down. He downed it in one pull, paced around his cell making jokes about how he was taking this so much better than everybody else around him until he had to be helped into bed. He picked that moment to remind his main student, Crito, that he owed an animal sacrifice to Asclepius, but hadn't gotten around to it yet, and died. Legend.
That's basically how I remember it too. He had this whole line of reasoning for why he shouldn't fear death and why nobody should be mourning him or sad about it, but I still have a hard time imaging that he was 100% convinced. By all accounts, he was, but man. Legend is right.
Ikr?
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