I am Close

Dear Reader,

All Semester Long I have held C.C. Grube's Translation of Plato's Republic in my Bag, reading a Book every weekish or so for Eric Schaaf's Philosophy 101 honors. I love/hate this text. No, I love it. It challenges and allows me to assess a lot of my principle values and the basis for which I believed in.

And so i realized another life goal. Book X of the the Republic is the grand finalle. Plato's true colors shines. And what he has to say is more or less a flaming inditement of everything i stand for. It pretty much says that in a just world... society... and to make this just world... we need no art, nor poetry. Mere fact and Reason. Math and science... All the things i am not or good at. and Plato sort of takes up a level of Eugenics... So I wouldn't be. I couldn't exist in the perfectly just republic. Wow Fuck. I am useless. And to top it off... he holds one thing as truely good and the only really truly good of the forms that he knows.... the soul is immortal and in many ways perfect... tainted by the body. Very Christian. Very not Homer. But the Best of the Best part that makes this my life goal is becuase it strikes so close to home because he accuses Homer, the greek poet, of these great evils of the unjust world. Homer is the Unjust.

If you don't know me... I consider myself vicar of Homer. and I will be greater than the blind poet... all of what I make is to outdo my namesake. ok not everything. But I wish to outdo my namesake

My goal is to find critically at every level the flaws of Plato's Book X and refute them of every level. Starting with in a modern sense. Then going thick into it by finding hypocrisy in his words. Finally I want to plainly be able to refute it to Plato is such a way that given everything known in 432 B.C. I could refute his works. Not merely Mock them like Aristophenes. I will find every problem and thus justify my life to the make who seeks the greatest justice.

My First Act is to print every page of Book X and highlight and mishmash on my wall with with it in bold large font. This I hope will lead to a second act.

Crazy New question?


DO THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT MATTER Are the ones we love and care about? i mean if we take is solipsistically? Can we justify anything for them because thats what it means to care about them? Are we all that we care about... So can we do anything for what we care about with ruthless prejudice?